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Publication details [#60412]

DiDomenico, Stephen M. 2015. ‘Putting a face on a community’: Genre, identity, and institutional regulation in the telling (and retelling) of oral coming-out narratives. Language in Society 44 (5) : 607–628.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gay | genre | identity negotiation | institutional context | narrative

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper debates how university-managed ‘coming-out stories’ of bisexual, transgender, and queer-identifying (LGBTQ) individuals, acquired via training, are imposed to reach ideological institutional goals. It also adds to knowledge on identity as a fluid notion.