36.3658, Books: Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Jones (2025)

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Subject: 36.3658, Books: Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Jones (2025)

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Date: 25-Nov-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Jones (2025)


Title: Language and LGBTQ+ Youth
Subtitle: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional
Lens
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/language-and-lgbtq-youth-9781350469495/

Author(s): Lucy Jones

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350469495, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This book takes a queer linguistic and intersectional approach to the
analysis of young LGBTQ+ people's identity constructions, showing how
their language use reveals their marginalisation in society.
The author develops a framework for an intersectional sociocultural
linguistics (ISL) and applies it to linguistic ethnography with
members of four LGBTQ+ youth groups in the UK. She shows how the young
people's identities are informed by different intersecting categories
(including race, class, and family situation) which influence their
unique life experiences. She uses discourse analysis to explore the
links between such intersections and the ways in which the young
people position themselves in relation to each other, their youth
group, and the wider world.
In focusing on these individual, varied identity constructions, the
book provides a unique, in-depth insight into the reality of being
young and LGBTQ+ today. It also reveals the need for an intersectional
approach when analysing marginalised groups.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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