Phil (Pip) Freestone

Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities

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Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities

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Using discourse analysis, I show how not all queer & male-identified individuals in Sinophone contexts navigate the same sets of ideological influences, nor in the same ways, despite the ostensible stability of associated cultural & sexual labels.

The sociolinguistic navigation of sexual normativities among same-gender-attracted men in contemporary Chengdu, China | Gender and Language In this article, the navigation of normativities by same-gender-attracted, male-identified individuals in Chengdu, China is considered with reference to their linguistic identity work. It foregrounds the relevance of plural normativities, which often arise from intersecting structural forces with diverse cultural roots, to better acknowledge the rich diversity of the broader sexual minority community in China. In turn, it argues that individual performances of sexual identity cannot be accurately accounted for using essentialist notions of culture. Furthermore, it is suggested that a sociocultural discourse analysis approach can provide an important and novel perspective on sexual identity in the region. Taking up this perspective questions and challenges assumptions of a characteristic orientation to normality in ‘Chinese culture’ and complicates oversimplified conceptualisations of normativity.

What's 'normal' anyway? Based on linguistic ethnography in the Chinese queer-identified male community, I pluralise 'normativity' & use discourse analysis to show how various forms of normative structural forces are negotiated through language & semiotics.

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Do 'Chinese gays' come out? While paying due attention to the diversity of lived experience connoted by identity terms like 'Chinese' and 'gay', I use sociocultural discourse analysis to investigate the underlying interdependence of language, culture & ideology.
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The sociolinguistic navigation of sexual normativities among same-gender-attracted men in contemporary Chengdu, China | Gender and Language In this article, the navigation of normativities by same-gender-attracted, male-identified individuals in Chengdu, China is considered with reference to their linguistic identity work. It foregrounds the relevance of plural normativities, which often arise from intersecting structural forces with diverse cultural roots, to better acknowledge the rich diversity of the broader sexual minority community in China. In turn, it argues that individual performances of sexual identity cannot be accurately accounted for using essentialist notions of culture. Furthermore, it is suggested that a sociocultural discourse analysis approach can provide an important and novel perspective on sexual identity in the region. Taking up this perspective questions and challenges assumptions of a characteristic orientation to normality in ‘Chinese culture’ and complicates oversimplified conceptualisations of normativity.

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