36.2687, Confs: Monographic Session "Language, Gender and Sexuality: Perspectives from Queer Linguistics" at the LIV Symposium of the Spanish Society of Linguistics (Spain)

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Date: 09-Sep-2025
From: Emma Machado de Souza [emmachado at usal.es]
Subject: Monographic Session "Language, Gender and Sexuality: Perspectives from Queer Linguistics" at the LIV Symposium of the Spanish Society of Linguistics


Monographic Session "Language, Gender and Sexuality: Perspectives from
Queer Linguistics" at the LIV Symposium of the Spanish Society of
Linguistics
Short Title: Language, Gender and Sexuality
Theme: Perspectives from Queer Linguistics

Date: 26-Jan-2026 - 29-Jan-2026
Location: Madrid, Spain
Meeting URL:
https://www.sel.edu.es/liv-simposio-madrid-2026/sesiones-monograficas/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
General Linguistics; Phonetics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)
                     Spanish Sign Language (ssp)

Submission Deadline: 30-Sep-2025

Queer linguistics has emerged as an essential field for understanding
how language, across its various analytical dimensions, relates to
LGBTIQ+ identities and experiences. This linguistic branch goes beyond
merely documenting specific varieties or sociolects within queer
communities. Instead, it examines the linguistic and discursive
mechanisms through which dominant culture constructs, maintains, and
sometimes challenges established norms around gender and sexuality.
Drawing from gender studies, queer theory, and LGBTIQ+ social
movements, the field has evolved considerably from its early focus on
specialized lexicons to encompass broader analyses of everyday
communicative practices and systematic critiques of heteronormativity
as a pervasive discursive regime shaping both linguistic structures
and usage.
This monographic session provides a forum for presenting and
discussing cutting-edge research in queer linguistics within
Spanish-speaking contexts. Our goal is to highlight the expanding body
of academic work and growing social interest in LGBTIQ+ issues,
particularly their intersection with language in Hispanic contexts,
areas that remain underrepresented in mainstream academic literature.
We welcome contributions from diverse linguistic approaches (including
critical discourse analysis, variationist and interactional
sociolinguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, experimental
phonetics, and semantic analysis) that examine how language manifests
key concepts in this field. These include gender and sexuality
performativity through language, the discursive construction of
LGBTIQ+ identities, power dynamics embedded in linguistic choices,
ongoing debates about inclusive language in Spanish, processes of
linguistic reclamation, queer narrative analysis, and
intersectionality in linguistic practices.
Through this session, we aim to foster interdisciplinary dialogue
grounded in linguistics, thereby strengthening queer linguistics'
position within Spanish academia.



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