Georgina Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgina Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgina |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Bizarre Sapphic midlife crisis’
This article looks at viewers’ responses to the romance between two older women on the BBC medical drama Holby City. In the context of a continuing lack of representation of (older) women-loving women, viewers of all ages describe a transformative experience, with an emphasis on positive mental health outcomes – yet older women also orient to something implicitly problematic about this being the case. This is premised, I suggest, in the foregroun…
Approaches to discourses of marriage
As part of the Discourses of Marriage Research Group (DoM) founded by Dr. Lucy Jones (University of Nottingham) in 2012, we have been thinking, talking, and writing about the language of marriage f
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
Confusion, control and comfort
A number of national and international agencies have pointed to identity management (IM) as one of the main private and public challenges of the future. The issue is subject to intense public controversy and contestation, especially with respect to access to, usage and ownership of personal data. Most work about IM assumes users to be rational actors making instrumental choices on the basis of perceived usefulness and efficiency; cultural narrati…
Giving Meaning to RFID and Cochlear Implants
In this article, we focus on people such as Randall and Edith; people who have either a cochlear implant for hearing improvement or a RFID implant. Both types of implants have caused controversy. The main opposition to CIs comes from the deaf community itself, which with the capital D signifies this minority culture. Deaf people consider themselves a socio-linguistic minority culture with sign language as their language [1]. They argue that CI un…
A Real Lesbian Wouldn't Touch a Bisexual With a Bargepole
Drawn from an investigation of the construction of collective identity in DIVA magazine between 1994 and 2004, this article considers the discursive contestation of the boundaries necessarily, though never straightforwardly, erected in the process. Analysing first a selection of articles and second (and more substantially) debates about who ‘we’ are in and between readers' letters, the article focuses on the ‘trouble’ posed by bisexuality in this…
Race, Racism and Sports Journalism
Dyke/girl
Both Dyke/Girl and Language, Sex and Social Structure are the product of the authors' doctoral research, both ethnographic studies, focused on a community-of-practice (CoP) and the ways in which th
Catching the Wave
Due to some of the unique conditions surrounding its production, there is a lack of knowledge about lesbian journalism in Britain that this article hopes to go some way to remedying. The first half of the article traces some of the key moments in the British lesbian publishing tradition; from the 1960s, when lesbian publishing first became viable, through to the 1990s, when the launch of DIVA demonstrated the new viability of a commercial, ‘mains…
The road to the lesbian nation is not an easy one”
The present paper discusses Diva, Britain's only mainstream lesbian magazine. Using critical discourse analysis, the article explores Diva's importance to its readers and the pertinence of critical discourse analysis techniques to analysing the magazine. Looking at six consecutive issues, the study focuses on a close textual analysis, backed up by content analysis, of how the groups “us” and “them” are constructed. The paper concludes that the ma…
Democracia y nueva derecha
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
The road to the lesbian nation is not an easy one”
The present paper discusses Diva, Britain's only mainstream lesbian magazine. Using critical discourse analysis, the article explores Diva's importance to its readers and the pertinence of critical discourse analysis techniques to analysing the magazine. Looking at six consecutive issues, the study focuses on a close textual analysis, backed up by content analysis, of how the groups “us” and “them” are constructed. The paper concludes that the ma…
A Real Lesbian Wouldn't Touch a Bisexual With a Bargepole
Drawn from an investigation of the construction of collective identity in DIVA magazine between 1994 and 2004, this article considers the discursive contestation of the boundaries necessarily, though never straightforwardly, erected in the process. Analysing first a selection of articles and second (and more substantially) debates about who ‘we’ are in and between readers' letters, the article focuses on the ‘trouble’ posed by bisexuality in this…
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Catching the Wave
Due to some of the unique conditions surrounding its production, there is a lack of knowledge about lesbian journalism in Britain that this article hopes to go some way to remedying. The first half of the article traces some of the key moments in the British lesbian publishing tradition; from the 1960s, when lesbian publishing first became viable, through to the 1990s, when the launch of DIVA demonstrated the new viability of a commercial, ‘mains…
Approaches to discourses of marriage
As part of the Discourses of Marriage Research Group (DoM) founded by Dr. Lucy Jones (University of Nottingham) in 2012, we have been thinking, talking, and writing about the language of marriage f
Race, Racism and Sports Journalism
Democracia y nueva derecha
Democracia y nueva derecha
The road to the lesbian nation is not an easy one”
The present paper discusses Diva, Britain's only mainstream lesbian magazine. Using critical discourse analysis, the article explores Diva's importance to its readers and the pertinence of critical discourse analysis techniques to analysing the magazine. Looking at six consecutive issues, the study focuses on a close textual analysis, backed up by content analysis, of how the groups “us” and “them” are constructed. The paper concludes that the ma…
Catching the Wave
Due to some of the unique conditions surrounding its production, there is a lack of knowledge about lesbian journalism in Britain that this article hopes to go some way to remedying. The first half of the article traces some of the key moments in the British lesbian publishing tradition; from the 1960s, when lesbian publishing first became viable, through to the 1990s, when the launch of DIVA demonstrated the new viability of a commercial, ‘mains…
Dyke/girl
Both Dyke/Girl and Language, Sex and Social Structure are the product of the authors' doctoral research, both ethnographic studies, focused on a community-of-practice (CoP) and the ways in which th
Confusion, control and comfort
A number of national and international agencies have pointed to identity management (IM) as one of the main private and public challenges of the future. The issue is subject to intense public controversy and contestation, especially with respect to access to, usage and ownership of personal data. Most work about IM assumes users to be rational actors making instrumental choices on the basis of perceived usefulness and efficiency; cultural narrati…
Giving Meaning to RFID and Cochlear Implants
In this article, we focus on people such as Randall and Edith; people who have either a cochlear implant for hearing improvement or a RFID implant. Both types of implants have caused controversy. The main opposition to CIs comes from the deaf community itself, which with the capital D signifies this minority culture. Deaf people consider themselves a socio-linguistic minority culture with sign language as their language [1]. They argue that CI un…
A Real Lesbian Wouldn't Touch a Bisexual With a Bargepole
Drawn from an investigation of the construction of collective identity in DIVA magazine between 1994 and 2004, this article considers the discursive contestation of the boundaries necessarily, though never straightforwardly, erected in the process. Analysing first a selection of articles and second (and more substantially) debates about who ‘we’ are in and between readers' letters, the article focuses on the ‘trouble’ posed by bisexuality in this…
Race, Racism and Sports Journalism
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
‘Bizarre Sapphic midlife crisis’
This article looks at viewers’ responses to the romance between two older women on the BBC medical drama Holby City. In the context of a continuing lack of representation of (older) women-loving women, viewers of all ages describe a transformative experience, with an emphasis on positive mental health outcomes – yet older women also orient to something implicitly problematic about this being the case. This is premised, I suggest, in the foregroun…
Approaches to discourses of marriage
As part of the Discourses of Marriage Research Group (DoM) founded by Dr. Lucy Jones (University of Nottingham) in 2012, we have been thinking, talking, and writing about the language of marriage f
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works)