Chris Vanderstouwe
Biographic Data
| ID | 175337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Vanderstouwe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanderstouwe |
| SIGNATURE | VANDERSTOUWE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Straight-ish’
Despite a robust literature on agency in language, gender, and sexuality research, constraints on agency as seen through multiple layers of identity, conflict, or construct are less clearly discussed. Through an analysis of straightidentified men seeking other men on a popular internet personal advertisement forum, I examine the language that individuals posting in men-seeking-men online personals employ to balance a self-presentation as a straig…
Public Discourses of Gay Men’ Paul Baker (2005, 2013) Abingdon: Routledge, 266pp
Combating privilege, regulating language: The struggle to create and maintain university safe spaces
Despite recent claims that (public) gay spaces as we know them no longer need to exist (Aguirre-Livingston 2011), many queer scholars have shown that this is not historically the case (e.g. Manalansan 2003). In order to examine the issue of language and sexuality in public spaces, this paper uses ethnographic data collected among members of a university queer group in southern California to demonstrate role and regulation of 'inclusive language' …
Sociolinguistic Justice in the Schools: Student Researchers as Linguistic Experts
The commitment of sociocultural linguistics to the cause of social justice has been central to the discipline since its foundation. This commitment is nowhere more evident than in the educational domain and particularly in the development of sociolinguistically informed curricula and teacher preparation programs. Such programs help ensure that students who speak politically subordinated linguistic varieties have the same opportunities in classroo…
Religious victimization as social empowerment in discrimination narratives from California's Proposition 8 campaign
One of the premier social issues in contemporary US politics is that of same-sex marriage. This research explores language use and identity construction by same-sex marriage supporters through narratives of discrimination. This paper analyzes data collected through the non-profit Marriage Equality USA, wherein narrators respond to a survey question about experiences of discrimination during California's Proposition 8 campaign, a statewide initiat…
The linguistic negotiation of heterosexuality in the same-sex marriage movement
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 464-478
Sociolinguistic Justice in the Schools: Student Researchers as Linguistic Experts
The commitment of sociocultural linguistics to the cause of social justice has been central to the discipline since its foundation. This commitment is nowhere more evident than in the educational domain and particularly in the development of sociolinguistically informed curricula and teacher preparation programs. Such programs help ensure that students who speak politically subordinated linguistic varieties have the same opportunities in classroo…
Combating privilege, regulating language: The struggle to create and maintain university safe spaces
Despite recent claims that (public) gay spaces as we know them no longer need to exist (Aguirre-Livingston 2011), many queer scholars have shown that this is not historically the case (e.g. Manalansan 2003). In order to examine the issue of language and sexuality in public spaces, this paper uses ethnographic data collected among members of a university queer group in southern California to demonstrate role and regulation of 'inclusive language' …
Straight-ish’
Despite a robust literature on agency in language, gender, and sexuality research, constraints on agency as seen through multiple layers of identity, conflict, or construct are less clearly discussed. Through an analysis of straightidentified men seeking other men on a popular internet personal advertisement forum, I examine the language that individuals posting in men-seeking-men online personals employ to balance a self-presentation as a straig…
Religious victimization as social empowerment in discrimination narratives from California's Proposition 8 campaign
One of the premier social issues in contemporary US politics is that of same-sex marriage. This research explores language use and identity construction by same-sex marriage supporters through narratives of discrimination. This paper analyzes data collected through the non-profit Marriage Equality USA, wherein narrators respond to a survey question about experiences of discrimination during California's Proposition 8 campaign, a statewide initiat…
The linguistic negotiation of heterosexuality in the same-sex marriage movement
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 464-478
Religious victimization as social empowerment in discrimination narratives from California's Proposition 8 campaign
One of the premier social issues in contemporary US politics is that of same-sex marriage. This research explores language use and identity construction by same-sex marriage supporters through narratives of discrimination. This paper analyzes data collected through the non-profit Marriage Equality USA, wherein narrators respond to a survey question about experiences of discrimination during California's Proposition 8 campaign, a statewide initiat…
Sociolinguistic Justice in the Schools: Student Researchers as Linguistic Experts
The commitment of sociocultural linguistics to the cause of social justice has been central to the discipline since its foundation. This commitment is nowhere more evident than in the educational domain and particularly in the development of sociolinguistically informed curricula and teacher preparation programs. Such programs help ensure that students who speak politically subordinated linguistic varieties have the same opportunities in classroo…
Public Discourses of Gay Men’ Paul Baker (2005, 2013) Abingdon: Routledge, 266pp
Combating privilege, regulating language: The struggle to create and maintain university safe spaces
Despite recent claims that (public) gay spaces as we know them no longer need to exist (Aguirre-Livingston 2011), many queer scholars have shown that this is not historically the case (e.g. Manalansan 2003). In order to examine the issue of language and sexuality in public spaces, this paper uses ethnographic data collected among members of a university queer group in southern California to demonstrate role and regulation of 'inclusive language' …
Straight-ish’
Despite a robust literature on agency in language, gender, and sexuality research, constraints on agency as seen through multiple layers of identity, conflict, or construct are less clearly discussed. Through an analysis of straightidentified men seeking other men on a popular internet personal advertisement forum, I examine the language that individuals posting in men-seeking-men online personals employ to balance a self-presentation as a straig…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies in Language (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works) · Law (2 works)