Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity

<p>This book advances the theorization of normativity as a key concept in language and sexuality studies bringing together some of the author’s previous work with new material for a comprehensive exploration of the influence of normativity on the relationship between language and sexuality. </p><p>The first section of the book outlines fundamental areas of inquiry in language and sexuality studies today with a focus on queer linguistic inquiry and elucidates the book’s theoretical frameworks around normativity. Chapters in the section reflect on the ways in which normativity shapes sexuality-related language how language is employed to convey sexual normativities and queer linguistic challenges for the use of research methods in the discipline through a discussion of their implementation in corpus linguistics. The second part of the book builds on these theoretical foundations by featuring seven case studies that illustrate a diverse range of methods and language data with a concluding chapter considering the implications of their findings for furthering theoretical debates and future research on normativity in language and sexuality studies. </p><p>This volume will be of interest to scholars in language and sexuality language and gender sociolinguistics discourse analysis applied linguistics and corpus linguistics. </p>