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              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:700">Feminist

              Linguistics Today <br>

              Politics, Ideologies, Materialism, Queer

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              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">Established

              in 2016, </span><span

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              gender,

              sexualities, and language. At a time when the journal is

              paying increasing attention to feminist

              issues of translation and circulation of knowledge, we

              would like, in this issue, to work across

              languages and spaces, and to publish texts written in

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              - in order to provoke intellectual encounters in an

              internationalist approach.

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          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">This

              issue aims at examining the relationship between

              linguistics and feminism, from the

              reflections of the pioneers who have invested the field to

              its current reconfigurations. This

              project proposes several axes of reflection:

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">●

              the place of politics (for researchers and speakers as

              well as in the discourses, objects

              of study, and theories),

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">●

              the epistemological dimension of a feminist approach to

              language and linguistics as

              well as a linguistic approach to gender and sexuality

              issues,

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">●

              and, finally, the new perspectives opened in linguistics

              by the contemporary

              reconfiguration of feminist questions, notably between

              materialism and queer.

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">Beyond

              the questions of inclusive writing, which are not at the

              heart of this issue, the first

              dimension that interests us is the political aspect of the

              relationship between feminism and

              linguistics. In France, in the 1980s, when the pioneers

              brought feminist issues into linguistic

              research, the status of politics within research in the

              humanities and social sciences was

              different from what it is today, and was more clearly

              affirmed. However, since the 1960s, the

              encounter between Marxism and structuralism had produced a

              linguistic turn for a certain

              number of disciplines in the humanities. In linguistics,

              it was not about embracing

              structuralism, which was already there, but about

              combining to it Marxism as "a philosophy of

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          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">language"

              (Bakhtine/Voloshinov [1929] 1977). Reading texts written

              in the 1970s and 1980s

              is striking in this respect: there is no doubt that

              language is political, as the works of the French

              school of discourse analysis show.

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">However,

              when reading the pioneers of feminist linguistics, one can

              feel the resistance that

              the field opposes to gender issues, and thus to feminist

              issues. In other words, feminism meets

              the same oppositions in linguistics as in other political

              spaces: priority is given to class

              struggle. In the last three decades, linguistics as a

              whole has discarded assumed political

              approaches (with the exception of certain critical

              approaches in sociolinguistics or discourse

              analysis). If sociolinguistics is interested in politics,

              it is only as an object and rarely as an

              epistemic “anchor”. Interestingly, in this context,

              feminist research has resurfaced in

              linguistics, reinjecting the political issue into the

              linguistic agenda.

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">With

              this issue, we would like to propose a transnational

              reflection and discussion on the links

              between research and feminism. What are they like today in

              various countries and languages?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">What

              can we do today with this political dimension in research?

              Does it allow us to see things

              differently? Does it uncover new objects and new

              relationships? What does the political aspect

              allow us to think that we could not think about otherwise?

              Moreover, do feminism and queer

              theories bring a specific approach to the political,

              compared to critical approaches as a whole?

              What are the current epistemic stakes in articulating a

              feminist thought, which is necessarily

              political, to research in linguistics, in which the

              political question seems to have been largely

              ignored in the face of the increasingly hegemonic claims

              of the principles of "neutrality"? Is it

              possible to tell a political history of linguistics,

              especially in its relationship to feminism? Is

              there a feminist linguistics today? What is the place of

              interdisciplinarity in current feminist

              linguistic research, in the sense of putting into relation

              knowledge built according to different

              procedures and different relationships to the construction

              of truth?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">Moreover,

              how can we interpret the current hostile reactions to

              feminism that some linguists

              have? What is the political agenda (or agendas) of

              linguistics? Is linguistics capable of

              assuming a political agenda? Isn't this the battle that is

              currently being fought?<br>

              This leads to a broader question about the gender

              ideologies of linguists. Can we analyze the

              discourses of reactionary/conservative linguistics? How?

              And what position can we adopt?

              Are these discourses an object of study that needs to be

              museumized, or are they an emerging

              phenomenon that is epistemologically urgent to counteract?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">The

              latest debates around inclusive writing, which have taken

              place perhaps more in the

              media than in scientific editorial spaces, show that

              theoretical positions in linguistics can

              sometimes be considered as hiding behind political

              readings of the contemporary world.

              Indeed, these debates are dictated by a media agenda and

              are willingly linked to issues that

              no one, apart from a few sociolinguists, has been

              concerned with in linguistics for the past 30

              years: equality, citizenship, the fight against

              discrimination, secularism, etc. It is therefore

              difficult not to read in these reactions, whether

              reactionary or progressive, a political struggle

              for a vision of the world, but also a struggle about what

              linguistics should be.

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">It

              is good news that, willy-nilly, linguistics is back in the

              social arena. However, the recourse

              to arguments of objectivity and neutrality to claim

              greater scientificity prevents linguists from

              assuming political positions. Should we then, with Haraway

              (2007), defend the idea that clear

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          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">political

              positions allow for the production of better science? Or

              should we assume that

              linguists produce, or perhaps must sometimes produce,

              something other than science, namely

              taking part publicly and in their own right in debates and

              decisions on what society should be?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">On

              the other hand, we can wonder about the links between

              linguistics and the different feminist

              currents. Feminist linguistics - at least in France - has

              historically been rooted in materialist

              feminism (Michard 1999, Violi 1987). So, can we speak of

              materialist linguistics? If so, is it a

              linguistics that is concerned with meaning in relation to

              the material conditions of existence?

              Is it a linguistics that considers the matter of language

              as a vector of ideologies (of gender)?

              Queer linguistics has grown in the United States and in

              Germany (Motschenbacher 2010,

              Motschenbacher & Stegu 2013, Hornscheidt 2007, Leap

              [2011] 2018, Milani 2018, etc.), but

              this perspective is still rare in France. What could be

              its principles? There is also a recent

              attempt to articulate materialist and queer currents

              within feminist theories. How can linguistics

              seize these new relationships and what can they bring?

              Finally, how can we respond to the

              new materialist feminism, which is based on an opposition

              to the consideration of linguistic

              questions?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">From

              a theoretical and disciplinary standpoint, we can also ask

              what is the place of linguistics

              within feminist thought. Indeed, feminist humanities and

              social sciences have taken up

              language a lot. This has allowed for major conceptual

              contributions (performativity as

              redefined by Butler 2004, 2005, for example), but it has

              sometimes been at the cost of a lack

              of precision in the analyses and use of theories (see

              Ahmed 2019, for example). Is linguistics

              just a tool that serves feminist social science? Or can we

              think of a strong contribution of a

              feminist linguistics that would illuminate issues of

              gender and sexuality in a discipline-specific

              way?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">Finally,

              we can question the contributions of feminist perspectives

              on the theories and

              methods of linguistics. Feminist theories would then be a

              "contributory epistemology" (Paveau

              2018) to linguistics, which would move away from the

              consideration of gender as a mere object

              of research. While linguistics has so far kept feminist

              theory on the margins, it can be seen,

              conversely, as allowing for a fresh revisiting of some

              central questions in linguistics, like the

              opposition between language and discourse, or the tension

              between structuralism and post-

              structuralism. While structuralism is no longer claimed,

              nor even discussed, in the majority of

              contemporary works worldwide, is linguistics - including

              its new paradigms - still part of

              structuralism? How can different structuralisms, in their

              different declinations (materialism,

              Saussurean structuralism, Prague structuralism,

              anthropological structuralism,

              psychoanalysis, etc.), on the one hand, be articulated,

              and on the other hand, help us to think

              together the relations of domination and the resistances /

              dynamics of emancipation? What

              other paradigms would allow us to think these relations in

              their linguistic dimension?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">In

              other words, are the various contributions of feminism to

              the articulation between the

              singular and the category able to inform linguistic

              theorizations? While feminist linguistics has

              shown how deeply gender and sexualities are shaped by

              languages and discourses, it has

              also shown how issues of gender and sexualities impact

              discourse and language, or at least

              theories of discourse and language (see the first issue of

              the journal GLAD!: </span><span

style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT";color:rgb(17,85,204)">Abbou

              & al. 2016</span><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">)

              While social approaches to language have often stuck to a

              Bourdieusian reading of the social,

              feminist theories have proposed a multitude of ways to

              think about domination and power.

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              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">What

              theoretical and epistemological contributions of feminism

              are transferable to social

              approaches to language? How does it allow us to revisit

              classical notions of sociolinguistics

              and discourse analysis?

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:700">References

            </span></p>

          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">Abbou,

              Julie, Candea, Maria, Coutant, Alice, Gérardin-Laverge,

              Mona, Katsiki, Stavroula,

              Marignier, Noémie, Michel, Lucy et Thevenet, Charlotte.

              2016. « GLAD! revue féministe et

              indisciplinée » </span><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";font-style:italic">GLAD!

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              Ahmed, Sara. 2019. « Le langage de la diversité » </span><span

style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";font-style:italic">GLAD!

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          <p><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"ArialMT"">Butler,

              Judith. 2004. </span><span

              style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";font-style:italic">Le

              Pouvoir des mots</span><span