H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2020

LIDISNO · Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-11-01 → 2020-10-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 239 861 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF-GF

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Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity

LIDISNO (Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity), is a language and sexuality research project carried out at Florida Atlantic University and Goethe-University Frankfurt. It seeks to study how shifts in sexual norms are associated with changes in linguistic practices and thus to present an empirical basis for the development of normativity as an analytical concept in (sexuality-related) critical discourse studies. For this purpose, LIDISNO studies the linguistic effects of three sexuality-related normative shifts from different time periods through historical comparative analyses of linguistic corpus data. The project seeks to address the following overarching research questions: 1. How is language involved in sexual normativity formation? 2. How do sexuality-related normative shifts influence the way language is used to talk or write about sexuality? 3. Which consequences do the findings have for gender-/sexuality-related language policies? Conclusions Language use is a central discursive medium where the way sexuality is conceptualized in a given culture and time period surfaces. It is the place where social negotiations are carried out about what is deemed good, normal and preferred or bad, abnormal and marginalized in terms of sexuality. Corpus linguistic techniques can be used to detect such sexuality-related discourses, with quantitative types of analysis often providing insights on descriptively based normativities (“what many people do”) and qualitative types of analysis being well equipped for the investigation of prescriptive normativities (“what people should do”) and the local enactment of non-normativities.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

LIDISNO is the first large-scale research project that analyses the role of language in the discursive formation of sexual normativity. Based on poststructuralist and Queer Linguistic theorisations of language and sexuality as discursively shaped, the project highlights the historical relativity and variability of sexual normativity by adducing empirical linguistic evidence from various time periods. In contrast to earlier work, which has largely postulated sexuality-related discursive shifts without verifying them in larger amounts of linguistic data, LIDISNO uses corpus linguistically informed critical discourse analysis to study the linguistic corollaries of three sexuality-related normative shifts: 1. language use about a person before and after their public coming out, with US Latino pop singer Ricky Martin as a case study, 2. language use to express same-sex experiences pre- vs. post-Stonewall, and 3. sexuality-related language use before and after 1890, i.e. the time of the oft-cited desire-to-identity shift in the conceptualisation of sexuality. Each of these shifts is studied through comparisons of pairs of text corpora pre- and post-dating the respective shift, while drawing on quantitative and qualitative corpus linguistic methods (frequency of sexuality-related features, frequency lists, keyword lists, semantic keyness, concordances, collocations, colligations) with the help of the tools AntConc and Wmatrix. These linguistic analyses are complemented by a comparison of findings across corpus pairs and comparisons with various types of supplementary data (interviews, personal narratives, major English reference corpora). LIDISNO will improve our understanding how linguistic practices shape sexual normativity. Its findings will be used to advance the theorisation of normativity as an analytical tool in critical discourse studies and to devise language policies that foster greater tolerance and inclusion of non-heterosexual individuals.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · Frankfurt Am MainКоординаторГермания
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES · Boca RatonСъединени щати