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. 25–36
Language and sexuality studies today
Why “homosexual” is a bad word and why “queer linguist” is not an identity
Heiko Motschenbacher | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences , Bergen, Norway
This article presents a short overview of the field of language and sexuality since the mid-1990s and discusses two issues that have repeatedly played a role in my own work in the field during the last decade: the incompatibility of the term homosexual with non-heteronormative language use, and the question of what counts as queer linguistic work.
Published online: 15 February 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00011.mot
https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00011.mot
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