Battlefield Linguistics - Queer, Trans, and Feminist Interventions in Linguistic and Discursive Change

About the author

Scott Burnett, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Francesca Maria Vigo, University of Catania, Italy.

Summary

This volume addresses the politicization of linguistic features indexing sexual and gender non-normativity at the phonological, morphological, and discursive levels. In the context of masculinist, heteronormative, and transphobic backlash around the world, these groundbreaking studies adopt queer, trans, and feminist linguistic perspectives to examine how normativity is resisted and identity is stylized, negotiated, and reproduced in everyday text and talk. Part 1 focuses on self-determination/identification through phonetic and other resources. Part 2 focuses on debates over language reform and change. Part 3 examines the contestation of gender ideology using critical linguistic analytical tools.

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Product details

• Assisted by: Scott Burnett (Editor), Francesca Vigo (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.11.2025
• EAN: 9783111351414
• ISBN: 978-3-11-135141-4
• No. of pages: 450
• Illustrations: 11 b/w and 11 col. ill., 51 b/w tbl., Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, farbige Illustrationen, schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Gender, Soziolinguistik, Linguistics, Diskursanalyse, Sprachpolitik, Sociolinguistics, SOC032000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Language Politics, Geschlechterforschung & Sexualität, Queer Linguistics, Trans Linguistics, Discourse Dnalysis