Brian W King
Biographic Data
| ID | 637458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian W King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian W |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING B W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9409-7816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Abnormal deceivers? Biopower in clinician accounts of embodiment and life for people with intersex variations
This research underscores the power of direct clinician–patient interaction to both reproduce and disrupt biopolitical paradigms, offering insights for improving practice and policy in our responses to intersex variations. I examine how clinicians in Hong Kong give accounts of their professional talk about intersex variations of innate sex characteristics, foregrounding the role of language in shaping medical decision-making and biopower in healt…
Sex, gender, sexuality and orientation in biomedical research articles on intersex variations
This article examines how biomedical research articles construct sex, gender, sexuality and sexual orientation in relation to intersex variations. We analyse 368 biomedical articles (approximately 1.3 million words) from PubMed spanning 1950–2020, comparing publications before and after the 2006 ‘Chicago Consensus’ statement that introduced the terminology ‘disorders of sex development’ (DSD). Using multidimensional analysis and corpus-assisted d…
Risk and danger on the rise
Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives
Flores and Rosa, in their leading piece, state that one of their main motivations in “undoing” raciolinguistics is their wariness of it becoming siloed as something “raciolinguists” do. As a sociolinguist whose work is primarily classified (with my consent) as various admixtures of queer linguistics, feminist linguistics, and (in my work bridging sociolinguistics and intersex studies) embodied sociolinguistics, I can sympathize acutely with the i…
Merging mobilities
In this article, we query binaries of mobility and immobility in language studies via an empirical focus on language/social practices in a site that bridges the global North and global South. To do so, we work from a Southern praxis perspective to analyze discourses/knowledges informing the performance of accounts from Cambodian men, interviewed about transactional same-sex relationship practices between (ostensibly immobile) local men and (osten…
Engaging peers and future parents, creating future turbulence
This study aims to develop a more fully theorised concept of biocitizenship as part of the teaching of intersex in critical approaches to sex education. It advances a perspective in which the options of students, as future parents and as biocitizens, are not limited to compliance to biomedicine, but one in which formal education experiences might prepare them to be neighbours and parents who, as allies of intersex family/community members, can en…
Linguistic Negotiations of Sexual Agency in Sexuality Education
The investigative aim of this thesis is to explore the role of language in the construction of sexuality agency during a classroom-based sexuality education programme for adolescents. The thesis begins with an examination of the motivations behind the study of agency in relation to sexuality. Overlapping research gaps in the fields of language and gender/sexuality and sexuality education are identified. Scholars from both fields have pinpointed d…
Hip Hop headz in sex ed
This study examines Hip Hop styling, gender, and sexual agency in a sex education class. The focus is on the indirect indexing of gender by a female-bodied student through the Hip Hop cultural personas of braggadocio and swagger, providing a rare look at ‘mundane’ performances of Hip Hop and its relationship to gender. Discourse analysis demonstrates that she used Hip Hop styling to manage ascriptions of sexual agency during a discussion task as …
Querying heteronormativity among transnational Pasifika teenagers in New Zealand
This study aims to contribute to emerging dialogues on language, sexuality and gender, focusing on the performance and subversion of gender and sexual normativities in a New Zealand sexuality education classroom. In terms of theory, the aim is to focus on New Zealand's outlying, unsettled 'global Southern' status. It also aims to heuristically separate New Zealand from the global North to explore local relationships between sexuality and gender t…
Becoming the intelligible other
Although genitalia only make up a tiny portion of the human body's surface area, their shape and appearance have great consequence for life trajectories and the ways in which bodies and people are understood. Intersex people, born with bodies that are not classifiable under a binary male/female construct, are increasingly embracing intersex identities, but intelligibility in society can be difficult to realize because cultural models and language…
Gender and Pragmatics
In the field of language and gender, there is a widely accepted origin narrative in which Robin Lakoff's seminal article is identified as the inaugural publication that launched investigations of a relationship between men, women, and language. Following its publication, there was a veritable explosion in language and gender research, with pragmatic issues attracting a good deal of attention. In the earliest decades, researchers examined features…
Inverting virginity, abstinence, and conquest
This study examines youth sexual agency during sexuality lessons in a New Zealand secondary school. Employing poststructuralist discourse analysis, examples are highlighted in which girls (and boys) gain access to sexual agency. Through conversation, girls are simultaneously positioned as ‘asked’ and ‘pursuer’ and boys as ‘asker’ and ‘pursued’ whilst abstinence and virginity are imbued with sexual agency for both sexes. This study demonstrates th…
Response to Donna Gabaccia, “Spatializing gender and migration
Trivial, mundane or revealing? Food as a lens on ethnic norms in workplace talk
Tracing the emergence of a community of practice
This study examines the language-driven aspects of the formation of a classroom-based community of practice (CoP), placing emphasis on ways in which researchers can verify the status of observed practices. Discourse analysis is reinforced by such an evidence-based understanding of the social milieu of a research site. When determining whether an aggregate of people is functioning as a CoP, however, the nature of the measuring stick is a vital que…
Location, lore and language
This study addresses how language interacts with the erotic and 'place' (our socially understood surroundings) in an online, text-only, mostly linguistic environment to create an erotic atmosphere, and how eroticised atmosphere relates to linguistically driven sexual subject formation. Analysis focuses on extracts from a conversation in which public erotic discussions unfold between participants who are (ostensibly) men who desire men. A 'room' s…
Language, sexuality and place
This study attempts to use space/place as a tool in discourse analysis, focusing on the immediate surroundings of interaction. Analysis focuses on data taken from a corpus of computer-mediated chat-room interaction. It investigates the ongoing performance of sexualised place (and place-based sexuality) through the use of language in online chat-rooms. The central questions focus on how the shared imaginary of a room helps to shape the performance…
Sexual identities in English language education
Sexual Identities in English Language Education provides readers with an unflinching yet sensitive look into the intersections of sexuality, teaching, and learning. In its pages, Cynthia Nelson man
The Language and Sexuality Reader
Being Gay Guy, That is the Advantage”
This study works against heteronormativity, which is prevalent in the second language acquisition field, adding queer perspectives to the growing body of research that questions a narrower, 1-dimensional view of the language learner. There is a common belief that learning an additional language (L2) while surrounded by L2 speakers in a naturalistic setting is best. Theories of identity and language learning have destabilized this notion, pointing…
Language, sexuality and place
This study attempts to use space/place as a tool in discourse analysis, focusing on the immediate surroundings of interaction. It investigates the ongoing performance of sexualised place (and place-based sexuality) through the use of language in online chat-rooms. The central questions focus on how the shared imaginary of a room helps to shape the performances of genders and sexualities unfolding ‘there’ and how the gendered and sexualised discou…
Visible Speech
Tracing the emergence of a community of practice
This study examines the language-driven aspects of the formation of a classroom-based community of practice (CoP), placing emphasis on ways in which researchers can verify the status of observed practices. Discourse analysis is reinforced by such an evidence-based understanding of the social milieu of a research site. When determining whether an aggregate of people is functioning as a CoP, however, the nature of the measuring stick is a vital que…
Being Gay Guy, That is the Advantage”
This study works against heteronormativity, which is prevalent in the second language acquisition field, adding queer perspectives to the growing body of research that questions a narrower, 1-dimensional view of the language learner. There is a common belief that learning an additional language (L2) while surrounded by L2 speakers in a naturalistic setting is best. Theories of identity and language learning have destabilized this notion, pointing…
Language, sexuality and place
This study attempts to use space/place as a tool in discourse analysis, focusing on the immediate surroundings of interaction. Analysis focuses on data taken from a corpus of computer-mediated chat-room interaction. It investigates the ongoing performance of sexualised place (and place-based sexuality) through the use of language in online chat-rooms. The central questions focus on how the shared imaginary of a room helps to shape the performance…
Location, lore and language
This study addresses how language interacts with the erotic and 'place' (our socially understood surroundings) in an online, text-only, mostly linguistic environment to create an erotic atmosphere, and how eroticised atmosphere relates to linguistically driven sexual subject formation. Analysis focuses on extracts from a conversation in which public erotic discussions unfold between participants who are (ostensibly) men who desire men. A 'room' s…
Merging mobilities
In this article, we query binaries of mobility and immobility in language studies via an empirical focus on language/social practices in a site that bridges the global North and global South. To do so, we work from a Southern praxis perspective to analyze discourses/knowledges informing the performance of accounts from Cambodian men, interviewed about transactional same-sex relationship practices between (ostensibly immobile) local men and (osten…
Becoming the intelligible other
Although genitalia only make up a tiny portion of the human body's surface area, their shape and appearance have great consequence for life trajectories and the ways in which bodies and people are understood. Intersex people, born with bodies that are not classifiable under a binary male/female construct, are increasingly embracing intersex identities, but intelligibility in society can be difficult to realize because cultural models and language…
Trivial, mundane or revealing? Food as a lens on ethnic norms in workplace talk
Querying heteronormativity among transnational Pasifika teenagers in New Zealand
This study aims to contribute to emerging dialogues on language, sexuality and gender, focusing on the performance and subversion of gender and sexual normativities in a New Zealand sexuality education classroom. In terms of theory, the aim is to focus on New Zealand's outlying, unsettled 'global Southern' status. It also aims to heuristically separate New Zealand from the global North to explore local relationships between sexuality and gender t…
Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives
Flores and Rosa, in their leading piece, state that one of their main motivations in “undoing” raciolinguistics is their wariness of it becoming siloed as something “raciolinguists” do. As a sociolinguist whose work is primarily classified (with my consent) as various admixtures of queer linguistics, feminist linguistics, and (in my work bridging sociolinguistics and intersex studies) embodied sociolinguistics, I can sympathize acutely with the i…
Language, sexuality and place
This study attempts to use space/place as a tool in discourse analysis, focusing on the immediate surroundings of interaction. It investigates the ongoing performance of sexualised place (and place-based sexuality) through the use of language in online chat-rooms. The central questions focus on how the shared imaginary of a room helps to shape the performances of genders and sexualities unfolding ‘there’ and how the gendered and sexualised discou…
Visible Speech
Language, sexuality and place
This study attempts to use space/place as a tool in discourse analysis, focusing on the immediate surroundings of interaction. It investigates the ongoing performance of sexualised place (and place-based sexuality) through the use of language in online chat-rooms. The central questions focus on how the shared imaginary of a room helps to shape the performances of genders and sexualities unfolding ‘there’ and how the gendered and sexualised discou…
The Language and Sexuality Reader
Being Gay Guy, That is the Advantage”
This study works against heteronormativity, which is prevalent in the second language acquisition field, adding queer perspectives to the growing body of research that questions a narrower, 1-dimensional view of the language learner. There is a common belief that learning an additional language (L2) while surrounded by L2 speakers in a naturalistic setting is best. Theories of identity and language learning have destabilized this notion, pointing…
Sexual identities in English language education
Sexual Identities in English Language Education provides readers with an unflinching yet sensitive look into the intersections of sexuality, teaching, and learning. In its pages, Cynthia Nelson man
Language, sexuality and place
This study attempts to use space/place as a tool in discourse analysis, focusing on the immediate surroundings of interaction. Analysis focuses on data taken from a corpus of computer-mediated chat-room interaction. It investigates the ongoing performance of sexualised place (and place-based sexuality) through the use of language in online chat-rooms. The central questions focus on how the shared imaginary of a room helps to shape the performance…
Location, lore and language
This study addresses how language interacts with the erotic and 'place' (our socially understood surroundings) in an online, text-only, mostly linguistic environment to create an erotic atmosphere, and how eroticised atmosphere relates to linguistically driven sexual subject formation. Analysis focuses on extracts from a conversation in which public erotic discussions unfold between participants who are (ostensibly) men who desire men. A 'room' s…
Gender and Pragmatics
In the field of language and gender, there is a widely accepted origin narrative in which Robin Lakoff's seminal article is identified as the inaugural publication that launched investigations of a relationship between men, women, and language. Following its publication, there was a veritable explosion in language and gender research, with pragmatic issues attracting a good deal of attention. In the earliest decades, researchers examined features…
Inverting virginity, abstinence, and conquest
This study examines youth sexual agency during sexuality lessons in a New Zealand secondary school. Employing poststructuralist discourse analysis, examples are highlighted in which girls (and boys) gain access to sexual agency. Through conversation, girls are simultaneously positioned as ‘asked’ and ‘pursuer’ and boys as ‘asker’ and ‘pursued’ whilst abstinence and virginity are imbued with sexual agency for both sexes. This study demonstrates th…
Response to Donna Gabaccia, “Spatializing gender and migration
Trivial, mundane or revealing? Food as a lens on ethnic norms in workplace talk
Tracing the emergence of a community of practice
This study examines the language-driven aspects of the formation of a classroom-based community of practice (CoP), placing emphasis on ways in which researchers can verify the status of observed practices. Discourse analysis is reinforced by such an evidence-based understanding of the social milieu of a research site. When determining whether an aggregate of people is functioning as a CoP, however, the nature of the measuring stick is a vital que…
Becoming the intelligible other
Although genitalia only make up a tiny portion of the human body's surface area, their shape and appearance have great consequence for life trajectories and the ways in which bodies and people are understood. Intersex people, born with bodies that are not classifiable under a binary male/female construct, are increasingly embracing intersex identities, but intelligibility in society can be difficult to realize because cultural models and language…
Querying heteronormativity among transnational Pasifika teenagers in New Zealand
This study aims to contribute to emerging dialogues on language, sexuality and gender, focusing on the performance and subversion of gender and sexual normativities in a New Zealand sexuality education classroom. In terms of theory, the aim is to focus on New Zealand's outlying, unsettled 'global Southern' status. It also aims to heuristically separate New Zealand from the global North to explore local relationships between sexuality and gender t…
Hip Hop headz in sex ed
This study examines Hip Hop styling, gender, and sexual agency in a sex education class. The focus is on the indirect indexing of gender by a female-bodied student through the Hip Hop cultural personas of braggadocio and swagger, providing a rare look at ‘mundane’ performances of Hip Hop and its relationship to gender. Discourse analysis demonstrates that she used Hip Hop styling to manage ascriptions of sexual agency during a discussion task as …
Engaging peers and future parents, creating future turbulence
This study aims to develop a more fully theorised concept of biocitizenship as part of the teaching of intersex in critical approaches to sex education. It advances a perspective in which the options of students, as future parents and as biocitizens, are not limited to compliance to biomedicine, but one in which formal education experiences might prepare them to be neighbours and parents who, as allies of intersex family/community members, can en…
Linguistic Negotiations of Sexual Agency in Sexuality Education
The investigative aim of this thesis is to explore the role of language in the construction of sexuality agency during a classroom-based sexuality education programme for adolescents. The thesis begins with an examination of the motivations behind the study of agency in relation to sexuality. Overlapping research gaps in the fields of language and gender/sexuality and sexuality education are identified. Scholars from both fields have pinpointed d…
Merging mobilities
In this article, we query binaries of mobility and immobility in language studies via an empirical focus on language/social practices in a site that bridges the global North and global South. To do so, we work from a Southern praxis perspective to analyze discourses/knowledges informing the performance of accounts from Cambodian men, interviewed about transactional same-sex relationship practices between (ostensibly immobile) local men and (osten…
Beyond undoing raciolinguistics—Biopolitics and the concealed confluence of sociolinguistic perspectives
Flores and Rosa, in their leading piece, state that one of their main motivations in “undoing” raciolinguistics is their wariness of it becoming siloed as something “raciolinguists” do. As a sociolinguist whose work is primarily classified (with my consent) as various admixtures of queer linguistics, feminist linguistics, and (in my work bridging sociolinguistics and intersex studies) embodied sociolinguistics, I can sympathize acutely with the i…
Abnormal deceivers? Biopower in clinician accounts of embodiment and life for people with intersex variations
This research underscores the power of direct clinician–patient interaction to both reproduce and disrupt biopolitical paradigms, offering insights for improving practice and policy in our responses to intersex variations. I examine how clinicians in Hong Kong give accounts of their professional talk about intersex variations of innate sex characteristics, foregrounding the role of language in shaping medical decision-making and biopower in healt…
Sex, gender, sexuality and orientation in biomedical research articles on intersex variations
This article examines how biomedical research articles construct sex, gender, sexuality and sexual orientation in relation to intersex variations. We analyse 368 biomedical articles (approximately 1.3 million words) from PubMed spanning 1950–2020, comparing publications before and after the 2006 ‘Chicago Consensus’ statement that introduced the terminology ‘disorders of sex development’ (DSD). Using multidimensional analysis and corpus-assisted d…
Risk and danger on the rise
Sociology (18 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Human sexuality (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Gender Studies in Language (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works)