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Navigating normativities: Gender and sexuality in text and talk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2019

Kira Hall ,
Erez Levon  and
Tommaso M. Milani
Kira Hall*
Affiliation:
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Erez Levon*
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Tommaso M. Milani*
Affiliation:
Göteborgs universitet, Sweden and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
*
Addresses for correspondence: Kira Hall, Department of Linguistics, 295 UCB, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0295, USAkira.hall@colorado.edu
Erez Levon, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UKe.levon@qmul.ac.uk
Tommaso M. Milani, Göteborgs universitet, Renströmsgatan 6, 41255 Göteborg, SwedenTommaso.Milani@gu.se
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This special issue was born out of a conversation initiated at a panel organized by two of us at the ninth biannual meeting of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), held at City University of Hong Kong in May 2016. The principal goal of the panel was to stimulate an academic discussion on the role of normativity and antinormativity in language, gender, and sexuality research in response to a series of critical interventions in cultural studies regarding some of the tenets underpinning queer theory (see Wiegman 2012; Penney 2014; Wiegman & Wilson 2015). It was our belief that sociolinguistics—with its focus on situated interpretations of social practice—has much to contribute, both theoretically and empirically, to these debates within cultural studies. This special issue is an initial attempt at articulating what such a contribution would be.

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Language in Society , Volume 48 , Special Issue 4: Navigating Normativities: Gender and Sexuality in Text and Talk , September 2019 , pp. 481 - 489
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