Stephen Turton
Biographic Data
| ID | 751581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Turton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Turton |
| SIGNATURE | TURTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1426-6542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The afterlives of Margaret Rany: Tracing the trial of an intersex person in early modern Scotland
In 1653, Margaret Rany was indicted before a court in Edinburgh for having sexual intercourse with a horse. It was unusual for a woman to be charged with bestiality, but what made the case more unusual was that a forced examination of Rany's body caused widespread debate over the nature of Rany's 'true' sex: were they a woman, man, or 'hermaphrodite'? Conflicting accounts of Rany arose as reports of the trial spread from legal records to newspape…
Deadnaming as disformative utterance: The redefinition of trans womanhood on Urban Dictionary
‘Deadnaming’ is the act of referring to trans people by the names assigned to them in infancy in cases where they have rejected those names. In this paper, Judith Butler’s (1997) theorising of injurious speech is united with Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall’s (2005) tactics of intersubjective identity formation to conceptualise deadnaming as a speech act with a harmful perlocutionary force, which may be employed to denaturalise or illegitimate a trans…
Segregating sex
Feminist and postcolonial scholars have long contended that dictionaries, far from being objective linguistic records, are ideologically loaded texts that overtly or covertly encode sexist and ethnocentric attitudes (e.g. Rose 1979; Benson 2001). Queer linguists have also begun to explore how dictionaries reproduce heteronormativity and cisnormativity (Nossem 2018; Turton 2020), though much of this scholarship has so far limited itself to the con…
The confessional sciences: Scientific lexicography and sexology in the Oxford English Dictionary
The empirical advancements of scientific lexicography, on whose principles the Oxford English Dictionary was founded, paralleled the developments made in a range of other sciences in the nineteenth
Redefining realness: Bringing queer performativity to the English dictionary
This paper furthers the goal of "queering lexicography" (Nossem 2018) by proposing a theoretical approach to analysing dictionary definitions that replaces the traditional descriptive/prescriptive binary with a model of normativity influenced by performativity theory. This is demonstrated by a critical discourse analysis of how entries forlesbian, gay, andhomosexualin four contemporary English dictionaries tacitly positionhomosexualas a neutral t…
Deadnaming as disformative utterance: The redefinition of trans womanhood on Urban Dictionary
‘Deadnaming’ is the act of referring to trans people by the names assigned to them in infancy in cases where they have rejected those names. In this paper, Judith Butler’s (1997) theorising of injurious speech is united with Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall’s (2005) tactics of intersubjective identity formation to conceptualise deadnaming as a speech act with a harmful perlocutionary force, which may be employed to denaturalise or illegitimate a trans…
Redefining realness: Bringing queer performativity to the English dictionary
This paper furthers the goal of "queering lexicography" (Nossem 2018) by proposing a theoretical approach to analysing dictionary definitions that replaces the traditional descriptive/prescriptive binary with a model of normativity influenced by performativity theory. This is demonstrated by a critical discourse analysis of how entries forlesbian, gay, andhomosexualin four contemporary English dictionaries tacitly positionhomosexualas a neutral t…
The confessional sciences: Scientific lexicography and sexology in the Oxford English Dictionary
The empirical advancements of scientific lexicography, on whose principles the Oxford English Dictionary was founded, paralleled the developments made in a range of other sciences in the nineteenth
Redefining realness: Bringing queer performativity to the English dictionary
This paper furthers the goal of "queering lexicography" (Nossem 2018) by proposing a theoretical approach to analysing dictionary definitions that replaces the traditional descriptive/prescriptive binary with a model of normativity influenced by performativity theory. This is demonstrated by a critical discourse analysis of how entries forlesbian, gay, andhomosexualin four contemporary English dictionaries tacitly positionhomosexualas a neutral t…
Deadnaming as disformative utterance: The redefinition of trans womanhood on Urban Dictionary
‘Deadnaming’ is the act of referring to trans people by the names assigned to them in infancy in cases where they have rejected those names. In this paper, Judith Butler’s (1997) theorising of injurious speech is united with Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall’s (2005) tactics of intersubjective identity formation to conceptualise deadnaming as a speech act with a harmful perlocutionary force, which may be employed to denaturalise or illegitimate a trans…
Segregating sex
Feminist and postcolonial scholars have long contended that dictionaries, far from being objective linguistic records, are ideologically loaded texts that overtly or covertly encode sexist and ethnocentric attitudes (e.g. Rose 1979; Benson 2001). Queer linguists have also begun to explore how dictionaries reproduce heteronormativity and cisnormativity (Nossem 2018; Turton 2020), though much of this scholarship has so far limited itself to the con…
The afterlives of Margaret Rany: Tracing the trial of an intersex person in early modern Scotland
In 1653, Margaret Rany was indicted before a court in Edinburgh for having sexual intercourse with a horse. It was unusual for a woman to be charged with bestiality, but what made the case more unusual was that a forced examination of Rany's body caused widespread debate over the nature of Rany's 'true' sex: were they a woman, man, or 'hermaphrodite'? Conflicting accounts of Rany arose as reports of the trial spread from legal records to newspape…
Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies in Language (2 works) · History (2 works)