Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics

Levon, Erez; Mendes, Ronald Beline (eds.) (2016). Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics. Studies in language, gender, and sexuality. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics examines the diversity of sexuality as a social and linguistic phenomenon. Bringing together work on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East, the volume explores how different ideologies of what it means to belong to a nation or culture influence how sexualities are both understood and linguistically expressed in a range of global locales.

Contributions to the volume use experiments, discourse analysis and different types of statistical tests to identify the particular aspects of language - accent, grammar, vocabulary, discourse - that are ideologically associated with sexuality in specific contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, the essays describe how individuals draw on these culturally-specific associations both when evaluating the speech of others and in their everyday presentations of self. Together, the eleven chapters in the collection provide a wide-ranging and multi-method perspective on how language mediates individual desires and larger social structures. They also serve to demonstrate the diverse interconnections between sexuality and other dimensions of lived experience in a variety of previously under-explored national and linguistic settings.

Item Type:	Book (Edited Volume)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS)
UniBE Contributor:	Levon, Erez
Subjects:	300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 400 Language 400 Language > 410 Linguistics
ISBN:	9780190210380
Series:	Studies in language, gender, and sexuality
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Language:	English
Submitter:	Erez Levon
Date Deposited:	14 Jun 2021 15:43
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:47
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152306