Dr LUCY JONES's Outputs (25)

Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research (2024)
Journal Article
Atkins, S., Mackenzie, J., & Jones, L. (2024). Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0130

This article outlines ethical principles for 'participant-centred linguistic research' (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the involvement of participants. Linguistics, as a field,... Read More about Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research.

‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2024). ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens. Journal of Sociolinguistics, https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12676

In this article, I build upon calls for an intersectional approach in sociocultural linguistic research-particularly in the context of language, gender and sexuality-which attends robustly to the question of race. Through the analysis of four moments... Read More about ‘You're not supposed to be gay, you're black’: Analysing race and LGBTQ+ youth identity through an intersectional lens.

Intersecting inequalities: (re)producing the marginalized other (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2024). Intersecting inequalities: (re)producing the marginalized other. Journal of Gender Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2418112

In their introduction, the editors of this Special Issue argue that critical discursive approaches which embrace an intersectional lens can, in combination, reveal the ways in which identities and social categories are shaped by power structures in s... Read More about Intersecting inequalities: (re)producing the marginalized other.

‘Fairness versus inclusion’: Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports (2023)
Book Chapter
Bailey, A., & Jones, L. (2023). ‘Fairness versus inclusion’: Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports. In K. File, & S. Schnurr (Eds.), The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sport. De Gruyter

“I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans men’s life histories and the regulation of gender (2023)
Book Chapter
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Mullany, L., & Pilnick, A. (2023). “I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans men’s life histories and the regulation of gender. In G. Brookes, & M. Chałupnik (Eds.), Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health (249-271). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38407-3_10

In this chapter, we analyse autobiographical narratives written by young transgender men who were patients at a British gender identity clinic. The narratives were part of a clinical diagnostic process in which participants were asked by clinicians t... Read More about “I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans men’s life histories and the regulation of gender.

Language, gender and sexuality in 2022: documenting and resisting regressive ideology (2023)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2023). Language, gender and sexuality in 2022: documenting and resisting regressive ideology. Gender and Language, 17(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.26176

This article focuses on research from 2022 that critically analyses the ways in which oppressive discourses continue to circulate, and which examines the role of language in protesting and resisting these discourses. It considers studies that remind... Read More about Language, gender and sexuality in 2022: documenting and resisting regressive ideology.

‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2022). ‘I'm a boy, can't you see that?’: Dialogic embodiment and the construction of agency in trans youth discourse. Language in Society, 52(4), 549-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404522000252

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Chałupnik, M., Mackenzie, J., & Mullany, L. (2022). ‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen. Discourse, Context and Media, 47, Article 100596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100596

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)
Journal Article
Collins, L., & Jones, L. (2021). External points of view in the PrEPUK News Corpus. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 4, 108-134. https://doi.org/10.18573/jcads.53

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)
Journal Article
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., & Mullany, L. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

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)
Journal Article
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., Mullany, L., Bouman, W. P., & Arcelus, J. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free‐text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

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)
Journal Article
Zottola, A., Jones, L., Pilnick, A., Mullany, L., Bouman, W. P., & Arcelus, J. (2021). Identifying coping strategies used by patients at a transgender health clinic through analysis of free text autobiographical narratives. Health Expectations, 24(2), 719-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13222

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2021). Queer linguistics and identity : the past decade. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 10(1), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00010.jon

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2020). Subverting transphobia and challenging ignorance: The interactive construction of resistant identity in a community of practice of transgender youth. Journal of Language and Discrimination, 4(2), 149–171. https://doi.org/10.1558/jld.18488

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L., & Collins, . L. (2020). A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of how users of HIV-prevention treatment are represented in British newspapers. Journal of Language and Sexuality, 9(2), 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20002.jon

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2020). ‘The fact they knew before I did upset me most’: Essentialism and normativity in lesbian and gay youths’ coming out stories. Sexualities, 23(4), 497-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719830343

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2019). Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019(256), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-2013

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L. (2018). "I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22(1), 55-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12271

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)
Journal Article
Turner, G., Mills, S., Van der Bom, I., Coffey-Glover, L., Paterson, L. L., & Jones, L. (2018). Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage. Discourse and Society, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517734422

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)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Mills, S., Paterson, L. L., Turner, G., & Coffey-Glover, L. (2017). Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships. Gender and Language, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.27916

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.