29.3859, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Socioling/Sweden

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Subject: 29.3859, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Socioling/Sweden

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Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 18:35:56
From: Heiko Motschenbacher [heim at hvl.no]
Subject: Language and Sexuality before Stonewall

Full Title: Language and Sexuality before Stonewall 

Date: 02-May-2019 - 04-May-2019
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 
Contact Person: William L. Leap Heiko Motschenbacher
Meeting Email: heim at hvl.no

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of Lavender Languages and Linguistics 26)

Language and sexuality researchers have demonstrated how sexuality is
discursively shaped by the way we use language to talk and write about
sexuality-related aspects. This issue becomes even clearer when it is
investigated how sexuality-related language use changes over time, since
differences in language use evolving from a comparison of historical periods
tell us something about how our conceptualisation of sexual phenomena has
developed. It is often against the backdrop of historical (linguistic)
evidence that we realise how culturally relative our modern-day understanding
of sexuality is. 

This panel, therefore, invites contributions from researchers who have worked
on the discursive construction of sexuality via language in times before the
Stonewall Riots – the central event of gay liberation in the Western world
(Duberman 1992). The year of the event (1969) is here set as a final boundary,
with work that studies sexuality-related language use dating from any period
up to this year being welcome. Potential topics include sexuality-related
language use in various historical periods, ranging from Ancient Greek and
Rome (Adams 1982), to linguistic repercussions of the desire-identity shift in
the conceptualisation of sexuality in the late 19th century (Barrett 2015,
Foucault 1978 [1976]), to sexuality-related language use in the first half of
the 20th century. One central function of such work is to uncover the
experiences of historically marginalised and non-normative sexualities and to
reconstruct their genealogies, which have often been publicly silenced,
through textual evidence. Investigations covering the time period directly
before Stonewall (Leap forthcoming) could, for example, consider how
linguistic practices helped establish the event as an “emblematic event in
modern lesbian and gay history” (Duberman 1992: xvii) or highlight evidence
for alternative narratives of language and sexuality in U.S. history.

Work on language and sexuality before Stonewall will normally involve some
archival work and/or analysis of historical textual data. This also raises
questions on what methods to use when examining language and sexuality
historically and what kinds of theories support and emerge from the inquiry
(for example, what is the queer linguistic potential of such analyses?).   

Previous work on the historical dimension of language and sexuality has, for
example, shed light on sexuality-related lexicography (Adams 1982, Coleman
1999, Nevala & Hintikka 2009, Simes 2005), the historical discursive
construction of prostitution and men engaging in same-sex practices (Hintikka
& Nevala 2017, McEnery & Baker 2017a, 2017b), or the historical development of
desire-related text types (Wyss 2008). The panel hopes to unite papers that
investigate a range of sexuality-related phenomena and that draw on various
language- and text-centered types of analysis.

Call for Papers:

This is a call for papers for a panel on “Language and sexuality before
Stonewall” to be held at the 26th Lavender Languages and Linguistics
Conference, which will take place May 2-4, 2019, at the University of
Gothenburg, Sweden (conference website: https://lavlang26.wordpress.com/).

Panel Organisers:

William L. Leap, American University Washington DC / Florida Atlantic
University (wleap at fau.edu) 
Heiko Motschenbacher, Western Norway of Applied Sciences Bergen / Florida
Atlantic University (heim at hvl.no) 

Please contact the panel organisers (wleap at fau.edu / heim at hvl.no) for more
information or to propose a paper for this panel. Abstracts of maximally 250
words should be submitted to the organisers by November 15, 2018.

Please follow the conference organisers’ guidelines for abstract submission:
Title: Do not capitalise the whole title but only the first letter of the
title (e.g. Language and homonationalism)
References: Please keep references to a minimum and do not provide a reference
list. For references in the text please follow the surname date convention
with no comma between surname and date (e.g. Ericsson 2018)

References:

Adams, James N. (1982): The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. London: Duckworth.
Barrett, Rusty (2015): Desire versus 'sexual identity' debate. In: Patricia
Whelehan & Anne Bolin (eds.): The International Encyclopedia of Human
Sexuality. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 294–296.
Coleman, Julie (1999): Love, Sex, and Marriage. A Historical Thesaurus.
Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Duberman, Martin. 1993. Stonewall. New York City: Penguin. 
Foucault, Michel (1978 [1976]): The History of Sexuality. Volume 1. An
Introduction. New York: Penguin.
Hintikka, Marianna; Nevala, Minna (2017): Representations of prostitutes and
prostitution as a metaphor in nineteenth-century English newspapers. Journal
of Historical Sociolinguistics 3 (2), 219–240.
Leap, William (forthcoming): Language before Stonewall. London: Palgrave
McMillan
McEnery, Tony; Baker, Helen (2017a): Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century
Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History. London: Bloomsbury.
McEnery, Tony; Baker, Helen (2017b): The public representation of homosexual
men in seventeenth-century England – A corpus based view. Journal of
Historical Sociolinguistics 3 (2), 197–217.
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.): Selected
Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical
Lexis (HEL-LEX 2). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 134–152.
Simes, Gary (2005): Gay slang lexicography. A brief history and a commentary
on the first two gay glossaries. Dictionaries 26, 1–159.
Wyss, Eva L. (2008): From the bridal letter to online flirting. Changes in
text type from the nineteenth century to the Internet era. Journal of
Historical Pragmatics 9 (2), 225–254.

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