Language, gender and sexuality in 2022: documenting and resisting regressive ideology
(2023)
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‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse (2022)
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This article offers discourse analysis of young transgender people’s interaction, in which they describe being rendered powerless through misgendering or misrepresentation. It argues that the young people’s collective responses to these moments enabl... Read More about ‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse.
‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen (2022)
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This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with... Read More about ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen.
External points of view in the PrEPUK News Corpus (2021)
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This work examines the use of reported external points of view (EPVs), with a focus on quotations, in a corpus of U.K. news coverage of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). Forms of external attribution have been shown to be a prominent feature of news d... Read More about External points of view in the PrEPUK News Corpus.
Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
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Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.
Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives (2021)
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Background: This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free?text autobiographical narratives.
Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives (2021)
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Background This paper presents an analysis of 32 narratives written by patients waiting for assessment at a transgender health clinic (THC) in England. Narratives are autobiographical free texts, designed to allow patients to describe in their own w... Read More about Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives.
Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade (2021)
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In this short essay, I offer some reflections on language and sexuality work over the past decade. My discussion is focused on the increasing influence of queer theory, in particular, and I comment on trends in research into language and queer identi... Read More about Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade.
Subverting transphobia and challenging ignorance: The interactive construction of resistant identity in a community of practice of transgender youth (2020)
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In this paper, I present two moments of interaction emerging from a focus group between young people who are members of a community of practice: a support group for transgender youth and their parents. Using discourse analysis, I demonstrate how the... Read More about Subverting transphobia and challenging ignorance: The interactive construction of resistant identity in a community of practice of transgender youth.
A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers (2020)
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This research reports on newspaper representations of PrEP, a HIV-prevention drug recently made available on a trial basis to at-risk individuals in England. Using corpus-assisted queer critical discourse analysis, we investigate the linguistic repre... Read More about A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers.
‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories (2019)
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This article demonstrates, via discourse analysis of a group of young gay and lesbian people's coming out stories, the salience of essentialist ideologies on their identity construction. The study reveals underlying normative assumptions in the young... Read More about ‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories.
Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction (2019)
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This article investigates the construction of two transgender vlogger personas, providing insight into the prevalence of normative discourses which may be drawn on when constructing transgender identities. Many transgender people around the world rel... Read More about Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction.
"I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness (2018)
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This article outlines the shared identity construction of five gay and lesbian members of an LGBT youth group, situated in a conservative, working-class, Northern English town. It is shown that the young people’s identity work emerges in response to... Read More about "I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness.
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage (2017)
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In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from CDA and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency... Read More about Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage.
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships (2017)
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This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices in Britain, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there ar... Read More about Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships.
“If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group (2016)
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This article presents ethnographic data emerging from research with a group of LGBT young people, detailing the construction of a shared identity. Using discourse analysis, it shows how the group members position people of South Asian descent as a ho... Read More about “If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group.
Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze (2015)
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This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker, 201... Read More about Implicit homophobic argument structure: equal marriage discourse in the Moral maze.
“Dolls or teddies?”: constructing lesbian identity through community-specific practice. (2014)
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The concept of ‘community’ often presents a problem for queer linguists. ‘The gay community’ is often viewed as an impossible site for research due to its imagined status, whilst local communities of gay people have been considered too heterogeneous... Read More about “Dolls or teddies?”: constructing lesbian identity through community-specific practice..