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10th Anniversary Issue: Reflections on the Field of Language and Sexuality Studies
Edited by William L. Leap and Heiko Motschenbacher
[Journal of Language and Sexuality 10:1] 2021
► pp. 13–24

Queer linguistics and identity

The past decade

| University of Nottingham , UK

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 identities. I take into account not only the work published in the Journal of Language and Sexuality and beyond, but also that presented over the past decade at the annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics conference.

Keywords: lavender linguistics, queer theory, normativity studies, nonbinary sociophonetics, language, sexuality and religion
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The shifting focus of Lavender
  • 3.Challenging normativity
  • 4.Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 15 February 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00010.jon
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