35.392, FYI: REMINDER - Call for Chapter Contributions - Rethinking Queer Linguistics? Theories, Applications, Future Directions

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Subject: 35.392, FYI: REMINDER - Call for Chapter Contributions - Rethinking Queer Linguistics? Theories, Applications, Future Directions

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Date: 03-Feb-2024
From: Benedict  Rowlet [browlett at hkbu.edu.hk]
Subject: REMINDER - Call for Chapter Contributions - Rethinking Queer Linguistics? Theories, Applications, Future Directions

We are seeking contributions to a new edited volume bringing together
theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches to Queer
Linguistics with the overall aim of reflecting on and rethinking the
status, impact, and future trajectories of the field.

Queer Linguistics, as a critical approach to the analysis of language
and discourse, has gained much traction over the past two decades or
so. Rooted in Feminist, Lesbian and Gay, and Lavender Linguistics, and
informed by Queer Theory more broadly, Queer Linguistics (QL) has
sought to extend the field of inquiry by adopting a critical position
vis-a-vis the discursive formation of normativities around gender and
sexuality. This is to examine how forms of cis-, hetero-, homo- and
other normativities, are constructed, perpetuated and performed in and
by language and discourse, including the important role of
intersectionality and other related concepts (e.g., homonationalism).
In addition, such examinations also encompass how these normative
formations may potentially be overcome (at least linguistically).
Accordingly, questions have recently arisen as to how QL might also
find relevance to the broader field of Applied Linguistics, especially
in the effort to reduce discriminatory communication and assign a
greater role to diversity - a Queer “Applied” Linguistics as it were.

With that said, in seeking to reflect on the status and impact of QL
in comparison to other related areas within and outside of
linguistics, there are a number of potential lines of inquiry, but
also challenges and complications that need to be considered. As
anything “queer” evades being defined - by definition (pun intended),
is it possible (or desirable) to map QL as a “discipline”, and what
implications does this have for mapping its relations with other
fields? Further challenges concern the poststructuralist heritage of
QL, where the issues raised in queer theoretical and queer linguistic
discussions still seem to be very far away from (and at first glance
hardly compatible with) most of the prevailing public conceptions of
sex/gender and sexuality, and the discourses related to them.
Moreover, there is a need to rethink QL in terms of how decolonial
and/or Southern perspectives and theories might be integrated with
queer (applied) linguistic approaches.

As a way of responding to these issues and challenges in Queer
(Applied) Linguistics and building on panel discussions at the
Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in 2022 and the AILA
World Congress in 2023, we, Martin Stegu, Joanna Chojnicka, and
Benedict Rowlett, invite chapter contributions for an edited volume
tentatively titled as above. We see this volume to be a forum for, on
the one hand, engaging with theoretical/methodological issues in QL as
it has developed over the past 20 years, as well as its future
directions. On the other hand, we also see it as a forum that brings
together contemporary applications of QL to address language related
issues and problems in diverse contexts across the globe. Accordingly,
we are particularly interested in receiving contributions from
scholars who are working on relevant topics in underrepresented
contexts of the Global South.

Areas we see the chapters potentially (re)addressing include (but are
not limited to):

(1) Theoretical and methodological contributions - Traditional and
potential new research fields in QL; Important challenges facing QL
today and in the future; Different approaches to QL and the role
diversity and pluralism play within QL itself, etc.

(2) Empirical contributions (Queer Applied Linguistics) - Applications
of QL in education; the workplace, etc.

The volume is anticipated to be one of the first publications in a new
series with Bloomsbury Academic on the topic of Queer Linguistics. We
will therefore work closely with Bloomsbury editors on developing and
delivering what promises to be an exciting and important collection of
current work in the field.

Please send a tentative title and 200-word abstract by the end of
February 2024 to Martin (martin.stegu at wu.ac.at) Joanna
(j.chojnicka at rug.nl), and Ben (browlett at hkbu.edu.hk) Please also
include your name and contact information. We look forward to
receiving your abstracts.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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