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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - From gay language to normative discourse
T2 - a diachronic corpus analysis of Lavender Linguistics conference abstracts 1994–2012
AU - Baker, Paul
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A corpus of abstracts from the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conferencewas subjected to a diachronic keywords analysis in order to identify conceptswhich had either stayed in constant focus or became more or less popular overtime.1 Patterns of change in the abstracts corpus were compared against theCorpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) in order to identify theextent that linguistic practices around language and sexuality were reflected inwider society. The analysis found that conference presenters had gradually begunto frame their analyses around queer theory and were using fewer sexual identitylabels which were separating, collectivising and hierarchical in favour of moreequalising and differentiating terminology. A number of differences betweenconference-goers’ language use and the language of general American Englishwere identified and the paper ends with a critical discussion of the method usedand the potential consequences of some of the findings.
AB - A corpus of abstracts from the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conferencewas subjected to a diachronic keywords analysis in order to identify conceptswhich had either stayed in constant focus or became more or less popular overtime.1 Patterns of change in the abstracts corpus were compared against theCorpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) in order to identify theextent that linguistic practices around language and sexuality were reflected inwider society. The analysis found that conference presenters had gradually begunto frame their analyses around queer theory and were using fewer sexual identitylabels which were separating, collectivising and hierarchical in favour of moreequalising and differentiating terminology. A number of differences betweenconference-goers’ language use and the language of general American Englishwere identified and the paper ends with a critical discussion of the method usedand the potential consequences of some of the findings.
KW - abstracts
KW - corpus
KW - language
KW - sexuality
KW - diachronic
U2 - 10.1075/jls.2.2.01bak
DO - 10.1075/jls.2.2.01bak
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2
SP - 179
EP - 205
JO - Journal of Language and Sexuality
JF - Journal of Language and Sexuality
SN - 2211-3770
IS - 2
ER -