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Inferring social meaning from language variation: liminality and gender
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Linguistic observations of social change: lesbian identities in New Zealand
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Variation at the edges: A liminal approach to assessing social meaning in borderlands
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Representing trans: linguistic, legal and everyday perspectives
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Towards a model of informed consent: trans healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Representing trans: linguistic, legal and everyday perspectives
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Liminality as a lens on social meaning: A cross-variable analysis of gender in New Zealand English
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Walking the straight and narrow: linguistic choice and gendered presentation
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Abstract:
The social category of gender is often considered binary in linguistic research, but this division glosses over the myriad identities within the broad categories of 'masculine' and 'feminine'. It also ignores the gendered experiences of participants, particularly transsexuals, for whom language is an important signal of identity. Two sociolinguistic variables (adjectival intensification and the phonetic production of [s]) are used to explore the linguistic construction of gender within a corpus of straight, queer, and transsexual speakers in Ottawa, Canada. Both variables emerge as sites for social identity work, suggesting that speakers with the most to lose practice a kind of linguistic conservatism. Straight men, who run the risk of losing the enormous social capital associated with heteronormative masculinity, take pains to avoid sounding gay or effeminate. Transsexuals, who risk both emotional and physical repercussions should their gender identities be questioned, aim for a safer middle ground.
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HQ0075 Homosexuality. Lesbianism. Including queer theory; HQ0077.7 Transexualism; P Philology. Linguistics
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v10i2.19812 http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76735/ http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76735/1/Hazenberg%202016%20-%20Walking%20the%20straight%20and%20narrow-%20linguistic%20choice%20and%20gendered%20presentation.pdf
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