Language, gender and sexual identity poststructuralist perspectives - Motschenbacher, Heiko 1976- (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Language, Gender and Sexual Identity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; Queer Linguistics; Queer approaches in linguistic research; Redefining Genderlects; The sedimentation of structural gender categories; The discursive materialisation of feminine and female generics; The discursive construction of the gendered body; Linguistic identity construction in queer cinema; Thinking Further: Language, Gender and Wounding; Language index; Subject index; The series IMPACT: Studies in language and society
This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view. On the one hand, the book provides an outline of Queer approaches to issues of language, gender and sexual identity that is of interest to students and scholars new to the field. On the other hand, the empirical analyses of language data represent material that also appeals to experts in the field