Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities - A Western Immigrant Perspective

This Element analyses the sociolinguistic navigation of cultural and ideological influence among queer male-identified individuals in Chengdu and Taipei. By analysing how queer and ethnically Chinese-identified individuals navigate ideological influences, it investigates some of the complexities of culture and identity and their dependence on semiotics and situated communication. Thus, the social affordances and constraints relevant to specific individuals in these contexts are described not only in terms of influences like 'Chinese culture' or 'Western ideology', but also in terms of the ongoing communicative processes through which they orient themselves to diverse structural influences. As such, this Element engages with the diversity typically subsumed into common identity categories. In turn, through its qualified deconstructionist approach to identity, it sheds novel light on the ideological complexity that tends to underlie queer individuals' performance of 'who they are', in Sinophone contexts and elsewhere.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Sociopolitical influence in queer mainland China and Taiwan; 3. Theoretical and methodological frameworks: identity, discourse and positioning; 4. Language and queer sinophone identity work in Taipei and Chengdu; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; References.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Freestone, Phil (The Hong Kong University of Scien Freestone
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.11.2025
• EAN: 9781009221245
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922124-5
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology, Of specific Gay interest, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, LGBTQIA+ topics: coming out