Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses

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ID2137287
AuthorsCynthia D Nelson (0000-0003-0871-4019), Cynthia Nelson (The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume1
Issue1
Pages79-105
Publication date2012-03-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.1.1.05nel
OpenAlexW2323625007
LanguageEN
Citations received15

Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or queer, or who are positioned as such by others. By bringing together such studies from applied linguistics as well as education and literacy/composition, I seek to consolidate and to cultivate critical explorations of sexual identity, language and learning as interlinked domains. To this end, I identify some defining features of the queer epistemologies that are emerging in the empirical, lingua-centric literature on 'gay'-student discourses, and I suggest future directions for this sort of work

Aesthetics · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Lesbian · Literacy · Pedagogy · Queer · Queer theory · Sexual identity · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Multilingual Education and Policy

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