In this article I explore the effects of heteronormative assumptions on the interpretation of interaction. I consider two pieces of data that, based on the kinds of alignments shown, might be seen as flirting. However, through both perception experiments and discourse analysis, I show that these are rarely considered to be flirting if they take place for ‘same-gender’ interactions. These results demonstrate the power and effect of ‘background knowledge’ about sexualities on the interpretation of talk.
2024. Why should we care about multilingualism, gender, and sexuality?. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 27:5 ► pp. 631 ff.
Milani, Tommaso M. & Erez Levon
2024. Theorizing checkpoints of desire: multilingualism, sexuality and (in)securitization in Israel/Palestine. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 27:5 ► pp. 702 ff.
Bruni, Attila
2023. Working in the Operating Room, Flirting with Objects and Technologies. In Sociomaterial Practices in Medical Work, ► pp. 59 ff.
Dashiell, Steven
2023. Deconstructing Gender Capital Involving Conversations of Male Military Sexual Trauma on Reddit. Sexuality & Culture 27:2 ► pp. 591 ff.
Groggel, Anne
2023. The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters. Symbolic Interaction 46:4 ► pp. 440 ff.
Hirsch, Galia & Pnina Shukrun-Nagar
2023. Flirting with the Israeli Prime Minister, humorously . The European Journal of Humour Research 11:2 ► pp. 20 ff.
Seger-Guttmann, Tali & Hana Medler-Liraz
2023. Flirting in service encounters: does the server’s sex matter?. Journal of Services Marketing 37:5 ► pp. 549 ff.
Wade, T. Joel, Maryanne L. Fisher & Karla Kenny
2023. Flirting. In Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior, ► pp. 1 ff.
2017. Flirting in online dating: Giving empirical grounds to flirtatious implicitness. Discourse Studies 19:5 ► pp. 581 ff.
Motschenbacher, Heiko
2014. FOCUSING ON NORMATIVITY IN LANGUAGE AND SEXUALITY STUDIES. Critical Discourse Studies 11:1 ► pp. 49 ff.
Motschenbacher, Heiko
2016. The Language–Identity–Normativity Interface and Critical Discourse Studies. In Language, Normativity and Europeanisation, ► pp. 51 ff.
Motschenbacher, Heiko
2020. Coming out – seducing – flirting: Shedding light on sexual speech acts. Journal of Pragmatics 170 ► pp. 256 ff.
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