Bilingual/bisexual

Linguistic and sexual fluidity in fictional accounts of bilingualism and language learning

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2137358
AutoresLyn Wright (University of Memphis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen6
Número1
Páginas177-203
Fecha de publicación2017-06-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.6.1.06fog
OpenAlexW2652195875
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas49

Recent work in language and sexuality has emphasized globalization and multilingualism as important areas of investigation (Bucholtz & Hall 2006,Leap & Boellstorff 2003,Murray 2014). Concomitantly, other scholars have employed the construct of sexual fluidity as a metaphor for linguistic fluidity (Otsuji & Pennycook 2010,Pennycook & Otsuji 2015). Few studies, however, have examined how sexual and linguistic fluidity intersect in individual experience. This paper examines metalinguistic discourse in three fictional novels involving bisexual, bilingual characters in order to understand how talk about language informs representations of sexualities. In these texts bilingualism functions in constructing access to queer communities, authenticity, belonging, and emotional control for bisexual characters. Further, sexual and linguistic fluidity are portrayed as lifespan processes embedded in specific time periods. Such understandings point to a need for historical approaches to fluidity that capture longer timescales and multiple dimensions of linguistic and sexual desire, practice, and identity

Aesthetics · Art · Construct (python library · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Linguistics · Metaphor · Multilingualism · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Pedagogy · Queer · Sexual identity · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology