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TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Bisexual oysters’
T2 - A diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis of bisexual representation in The Times between 1957 and 2017
AU - Wilkinson, Mark
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Discourse and Communication, 13 (2), 2019, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Discourse and Communication page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/DCM on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Recent decades have witnessed an increase in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) visibility in the British media. Increased representation has not been equally distributed, however, as bisexuality remains an obscured sexual identity in discourses of sexuality. Through the use of diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis, this study seeks to uncover how bisexual people have been represented in the British press between 1957 and 2017. By specifically focusing on the discursive construction of bisexuality in The Times, the results reveal how bisexual people are represented as existing primarily in discourses of the past or in fiction. The Times corpus also reveals significant variation in the lexical meaning of bisexual throughout the 60 years in question. These findings contribute to contemporary theories of bisexual erasure which posit that bisexual people are denied the same ontological status as monosexual identities, that is, homosexuality and heterosexuality. © The Author(s) 2019.
AB - Recent decades have witnessed an increase in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) visibility in the British media. Increased representation has not been equally distributed, however, as bisexuality remains an obscured sexual identity in discourses of sexuality. Through the use of diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis, this study seeks to uncover how bisexual people have been represented in the British press between 1957 and 2017. By specifically focusing on the discursive construction of bisexuality in The Times, the results reveal how bisexual people are represented as existing primarily in discourses of the past or in fiction. The Times corpus also reveals significant variation in the lexical meaning of bisexual throughout the 60 years in question. These findings contribute to contemporary theories of bisexual erasure which posit that bisexual people are denied the same ontological status as monosexual identities, that is, homosexuality and heterosexuality. © The Author(s) 2019.
KW - Bisexual erasure
KW - bisexuality
KW - British Press
KW - collocation analysis
KW - concordance analysis
KW - corpus analysis
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - corpus-assisted discourse studies
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis
KW - diachronic variation
KW - discourse analysis
KW - discursive construction of identity
KW - historical discourse analysis
KW - LGBTQI studies
KW - media representation
KW - newspaper discourse
KW - semantic variation
KW - sexual identity
KW - The Times
U2 - 10.1177/1750481318817624
DO - 10.1177/1750481318817624
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 249
EP - 267
JO - Discourse and Communication
JF - Discourse and Communication
SN - 1750-4813
IS - 2
ER -