For the love of Sporty Spice
The interaction of gender, sexuality, and sport in /s/ production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10294689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salina Cuddy (0000-0003-3130-0105, Department of Language and Linguistic Science , 8748 University of York , York , YO10 5DD , UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-187 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2023-0244 |
| OpenAlex | W4412926037 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
While research into the interaction of language and sexuality is becoming increasingly widespread, there is still little sociophonetic sexuality work that considers female speakers and much of the previous research focuses on a binary distinction of gay women compared to straight women. This study instead considers a distinct identity that distinguishes female speakers based on their participation in local football. This analysis shows that participants who are part of their local football team have significantly different /s/ productions than those who were not part of the team. This article suggests that this difference may connect to aspects of gender identity and sexuality and discusses the societal factors that may influence this relation between identity and football
Economics · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Production (economics) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
LmerTest Package
Random bisexual forests
Walking the straight and narrow
The fastest growing sport? women's football in England
Queering the Field? The complexities of sexuality within a lesbian-identified football team in England
Auditory Gaydar
Variability in /s/ among transgender speakers
Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions
Phonation type as a stylistic variable
Variation and the indexical field 1
Three Waves of Variation Study
Sociophonetics and Sexuality
Hearing “Gay
Sounding Gay
The influence of /s/ quality on ratings of men's sexual orientation
Loose Lips and Silver Tongues, or, Projecting Sexual Orientation Through Speech
Taking Queer Linguistics further
The substance of style
A majority sound change in a minority community
The fierceness of fronted /s
Why be normal
The Semiotic Hitchhiker's Guide to Creaky Voice
How gay is football this year
| Highly cited | No |
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