36.3897, Books: Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities: Freestone (2025)

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Subject: 36.3897, Books: Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities: Freestone (2025)

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Date: 18-Dec-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities: Freestone (2025)


Title: Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities
Subtitle: A Western Immigrant Perspective
Series Title: Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/discourse-and-queer-sinophone-male-identities-western-immigrant-perspective?format=PB&isbn=9781009221245

Author(s): Phil Freestone

Paperback ISBN:  9781009221245 Pages:  75 Price: U.K. £ 18.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009221245 Pages:  75 Price: Europe EURO 21.01
Paperback ISBN:  9781009221245 Pages:  75 Price: U.S. $ 23.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009578646 Pages:  75 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009578646 Pages:  75 Price: Europe EURO 64.19
Hardback ISBN:  9781009578646 Pages:  75 Price: U.S. $ 70.00

Abstract:

This Element analyses the sociolinguistic navigation of cultural and
ideological influence among queer male-identified individuals in
Chengdu and Taipei. By analysing how queer and ethnically
Chinese-identified individuals navigate ideological influences, it
investigates some of the complexities of culture and identity and
their dependence on semiotics and situated communication. Thus, the
social affordances and constraints relevant to specific individuals in
these contexts are described not only in terms of influences like
'Chinese culture' or 'Western ideology', but also in terms of the
ongoing communicative processes through which they orient themselves
to diverse structural influences. As such, this Element engages with
the diversity typically subsumed into common identity categories. In
turn, through its qualified deconstructionist approach to identity, it
sheds novel light on the ideological complexity that tends to underlie
queer individuals' performance of 'who they are', in Sinophone
contexts and elsewhere.

Written In: English (eng)



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