Article published in:
10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality StudiesEdited by William L. Leap and Heiko Motschenbacher
[Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:1] 2021
► pp. 1–12
Moving into the next ten years
William L. Leap | American University , Washington, DC, USA | Florida Atlantic University , Boca Raton, FL, USA
This paper begins by introducing the Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Sexuality. Then the paper shifts focus, to consider concerns that have shaped studies of language and sexuality over the past ten years and are shaping these studies’ immediate and emerging interests. The paper also considers how the Journal could support these interests in language and sexuality oriented in terms of a “mesh of possibilities …” (Sedgwick 1993: 8) rather than psychosocial processes, masculine/feminine binaries, or hetero/homosexual hierarchies.
Article outline
- 1.Introducing the special issue
- 2.Introducing language and sexuality studies as a “mesh of possibilities”
- 3.Language and sexuality within “… the issues facing people in their social existence”
- 4.Guidance from queer inquiry
- 5.… and from queer linguistics
- 6.Language, sexuality, gender … and beyond
- 7.To address absences and erasures
- Notes
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References
Published online: 15 February 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00009.lea
https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00009.lea
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