<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152806"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152807"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152808" lang="EN-GB">*** Apologies for cross-posting***</span></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152934"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152807"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152808" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152936"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152807"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152808" lang="EN-GB">Call for
Papers</span></b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152809"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152810"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152811" lang="EN-GB">Panel on
“Historical Dimensions of Language and Sexuality”</span></b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152812"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152813"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152814" lang="EN-GB">Panel chair:
Heiko Motschenbacher</span></b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152815"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152816"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152817" lang="EN-GB">25<sup id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152818">th</sup>
Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference</span></b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152819"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152820"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152821" lang="EN-GB">Rhode Island
College, Providence, RI; 20-22 April 2018 </span></b></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152822"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152823" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152824"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152825" lang="EN-GB">The relationship between
language and sexuality has been investigated from a number of angles to date,
but historical investigations still form the exception rather than the rule.
However, from a queer linguistic perspective, documenting the diachronic
variability of this relationship plays a key role in deconstructing
contemporary sexuality-related discourses, as it highlights the historical
instability even of discourses that are highly dominant today. Theoretical
debates in language and sexuality studies have placed great emphasis on the desire-identity
shift in the conceptualisation of sexuality (Cameron & Kulick 2003), which
is claimed to have taken place at the end of the 19<sup id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152826">th</sup> century.
Still, we know only little about how this conceptual shift has changed the way
we use language to talk and write about sexuality.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152827"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152828" lang="EN-GB">Echoing the conference
theme “Future Directions for Language and Sexuality Inquiry”, the panel on
“Historical Dimensions of Language and Sexuality” seeks to collate work that
empirically engages with the question how language use about sexuality has
changed across time periods and invites contributions which address this issue.
The historical desire-identity shift is just one significant change whose
linguistic repercussions can be studied. Other potentially relevant work may
address, for example, sexuality-related language use pre-dating this shift (for
example, in Old English, Middle English or Early Modern English times; e.g.
Calvo 2005, Frank 2003, Nevala & Hintikka 2009, Oncins-Martínez 2006),
language use before (and after) Stonewall (Leap forthcoming), linguistic
representation before and after a person’s coming out (e.g. Chirrey 2003, Wong
2009), the influence of changing sexuality-related legislation on language use
(for example, legalisation of same-sex marriage or prostitution; e.g. Love
& Baker 2015, McEnery & Baker 2017), changing textual representations
of sexually defined social groups (e.g. Koller 2013), changes in sexually
relevant text types (e.g. Wyss 2008), developments in academic language use
about sexuality (e.g. Baker 2013), and the linguistic effects of any other
sexuality-related normative historical shifts.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152829"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152830" lang="EN-GB">The historical study of
language and sexuality can be approached with a range of methodologies,
including corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, linguistic
ethnography, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and historical linguistics. What is
important for this panel is that papers have an explicit contrastive historical
dimension which highlights how sexuality-related discourses and language use
have changed due to – and in support of – certain social changes.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152892"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152830" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152831"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152832" lang="EN-GB">References</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152833"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152834" lang="EN-GB">Baker, Paul (2013): From
gay language to normative discourse. A diachronic corpus analysis of Lavender
Linguistics conference abstracts 1994-2012. <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152835">Journal of Language and
Sexuality</em> 2 (2): 179–205.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152836"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152837" lang="EN-GB">Calvo, Juan José (2005):
Sexual euphemism in the history of the English language. Sample probe 0. In
José Santaemilia (ed.): <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152838">The Language of Sex. Saying and Not Saying</em>.
València: Universitat de València, pp. 63–74.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152839"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152840" lang="EN-GB">Cameron, Deborah; Kulick,
Don (2003): <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152841">Language and Sexuality</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152842"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152843" lang="EN-GB">Chirrey, Deborah A. (2003):
‘I hereby come out’: What sort of speech act is coming out? <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152844">Journal of
Sociolinguistics</em> 7 (1): 24–37.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152845"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152846" lang="EN-GB">Frank, Roberta (2003): Sex
in the Dictionary of Old English. In Mark C. Amodio, O’Brien O’Keeffe,
Katherine (eds.): <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152847">Unlocking the Wordhord. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of
Edward B. Irving, Jr</em>. Toronto: University of Toronto, pp. 302–312.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152848"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152849" lang="EN-GB">Koller, Veronika (2013):
Constructing (non-)normative identities in written lesbian discourse. A
diachronic study. <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152850">Discourse & Society</em> 24 (5): 572–589.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152851"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152852" lang="EN-GB">Leap, William L.
(forthcoming): <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152853">Language ‘Before’ Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History</em>.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152854"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152855" lang="EN-GB">Love, Robbie; Baker, Paul
(2015): The hate that dare not speak its name? <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152856">Journal of Language
Aggression and Conflict</em> 3 (1): 57–86.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152857"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152858" lang="EN-GB">McEnery, Tony; Baker, Helen
(2017): <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152859">Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational
Linguistics and History</em>. London: Bloomsbury.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152860"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152861" lang="EN-GB">Nevala, Minna; Hintikka,
Marianna (2009): Cider-wenches and high prized pin-boxes. Bawdy terminology in
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. In R. W. McConchie, Alpo
Honkapohja, Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.): <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152862">Selected Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium
on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX 2)</em>. </span>Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 134–152.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152863"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152864" lang="EN-GB">Oncins-Martínez, José L.
(2006): Notes on the metaphorical basis of sexual language in Early Modern
English. In Vázquez González, Juan Gabriel, Montserrat Martínez Vázquez, Ron
Vaz, Pilar (eds.): <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152865">The Historical Linguistics-Cognitive Linguistics
Interface</em>. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, pp. 205–224.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152866"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152867" lang="EN-GB">Wong, Andrew (2009):
Coming-out stories and the ‘gay imaginary’. <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152868">Sociolinguistic Studies</em> 3
(1): 1–36.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152869"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152870" lang="EN-GB">Wyss, Eva L. (2008): From
the bridal letter to online flirting. Changes in text type from the nineteenth
century to the Internet era. <em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152871">Journal of Historical Pragmatics</em> 9 (2):
225–254.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152882"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152870" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152885"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152870" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152872"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152873" lang="EN-GB">Researchers who are
interested in contributing to this panel are invited to submit an abstract to
the panel organiser by 20 October 2017 (</span><a href="mailto:motschenbacher@em.uni-frankfurt.de" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152874"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152875" lang="EN-GB">motschenbacher@em.uni-frankfurt.de</span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152876" lang="EN-GB">). Abstracts should be no more than
250 words (excluding references) and include the presentation title, the
presenter’s name, affiliation, and email address. Abstracts must explain which
sexuality-related shift is addressed, and sketch out theoretical foundations,
data type, research method and basic findings. </span>Paper presentations are
20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152877"> </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152654"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1504709290214_152630">PD Dr. Heiko Motschenbacher <br><br> ==General Editor: Journal of Language and Sexuality (JLS)== <br>http://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jls
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