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Ein wichtiger Beitrag zur romanistischen Gender- und Queerlinguistik!

Link zum Buch:
Gender, Sprache, Kognition
In diesem Buch wird die Interpretation generischer Maskulina und alternativer, gender-inklusiver Personenbezeichnungsformen im Spanischen untersucht.
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sog. generische Maskulina häufig gerade nicht generisch, sondern mit einem male bias interpretiert werden, das durch gender-inklusive Formen in einigen Fällen abgemildert oder beseitigt werden kann.
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Die Arbeit schafft eine empirische Grundlage für die Debatte über genderinklusiven Sprachgebrauch im Spanischen: Mittels psycholinguistischer Experimente untersucht sie, wie sog. generische Maskulina und alternative Sprachformen – darunter auch nichtbinäre Formen –  interpretiert werden.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet

Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann
A central concept of queer theory and key factor in queer lives, the closet has the potential to cluster recent approaches and concerns in queer studies, and to create a locus for collaboration among different disciplines. In our talk, we approach this key paradigm of queer theory through the lens of embodiment. The closet as a metaphor conceptualizes different ways of (physically) interacting with and being in the world. These manifest in queer people’s bodies, at which we take a closer look to gauge the affective dimension of coming out: What does it mean to be out or to be in the closet? What impact does it have on the body and what does it mean for how queer bodies engage with the world? How is ‘masking’ or ‘passing’ differently embodied? From a sociolinguistic and literary studies perspective respectively, we shed light on some of the body’s intersections with gender and sexuality, and discuss one case study from each field.
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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(i.e. the use of English pronoun sets in an otherwise German discursive context).
We'll let you know here once the papers are published!

Do you have queer linguistic literature tips on pronouns? Feel free to drop them below!

Have a great #InternationalPronunsDay!
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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findings from her MA thesis on the complex indexicalities of pronoun sharing practices. The thesis found that people share their pronouns to communicate a number of things—including, but absolutely not limited to aspects of gender. Sawall also discusses multilingual pronoun sharing practices...
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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(e.g. "my pronouns are Fuck/Off). Heyd investigates the semiotics, semantics, and metadiscursive framings of mock pronouns and connects this phenomenon to other uses of mock language such as Mock Spanish (Hill 1999).
doi.org/10.1525/aa.1...

And Hannah Sawall is working on publishing...
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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By the way: Some of our members are also cooking up papers on #pronoun practices.
@theresaheyd.bsky.social is working on a manuscript on "mock pronouns" as a digital linguistic practice. Mock pronouns take the shape of 'pronuns in bio' but consist of ridiculing or nonsensical linguistic material...
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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the radar of straight members of the audience. The choice of a third person pronoun can equally reveal or conceal the lecturer's identity, e.g., when Morrish uses either "we" or "they" when teaching about lesbian discourse. In a heteronormative world, pronouns can be "incriminating" (185).
Chapter 8 The case of the indefinite pronoun Discourse and the concealment of lesbian identity in class Elizabeth Morrish Nottingham Trent University
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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avoid coming out to her students when discussing linguistic examples from her personal life in lectures. Morrish classifies the avoidance of pronominal anaphora as "a recognizably gay tactic" (186), arguing that this discursive practice both signals queerness to queer students and falls under...
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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analyzes identity revelation and concealment through language in dialogue with Queer Theory and Critical Discourse Studies. With an autoethnographic approach, Morrish focuses on the position of lesbian lecturers at university. Crucially, Morrish points out the "circumlouctions" (186) she uses to...
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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But pronouns can not only be used to index queer identities and epistemological orientations, their use and the avoidance thereof can also conceal queerness in unsafe environments. Liz Morrish's (2002) chapter "The case of the indefinite pronoun" (#paywalled)...
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October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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pronouns can... index a particular gender modality (that is, cisgender) as well as a particular epistemological orientation to the way that gender operates" (3). A thorough understanding of gender and pronoun use, Raclaw argues, requires us to leave behind the "dominant, cisnormative lens" (9).
Abstract. This paper examines language ideologies surrounding the perceived indexicality of gendered pronouns among speakers who use multiple pronoun sets. Through a discourse analysis of research interviews with speakers who use multiple pronouns in English, I argue that these language ideologies must be understood as grounded in trans epistemologies—trans-affirming ways of thinking and knowing about gender that emerge from trans communities—to understand how such ideologies both resist and align with dominant understandings of the exclusive and constitutive relationship between pronouns and gender. The analysis not only expands our understanding of multiple pronoun use, but also broader gendered language practices among trans, nonbinary, and other gender-diverse speakers. In doing so, it further demonstrates the need for a trans linguistics (Zimman 2020) that highlights the relevance of trans ways of knowing to our understanding of language and gendered practice.
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Raclaw investigages language ideology surrounding multiple pronoun use—that is, the use of a set of two or more third person pronouns, like she/they—through qualitative interview data and argues that the indexical meaning of pronoun sets shifts when analyzed with a trans perspective: "she/her/hers..
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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offer a site where grammar, epistemologies of language, and queer identity practices interesect beautifully. A recent example: @joshuaraclaw.com's (2025) paper on multiple pronoun use in English—available #OpenAcces in the proceedings of the @lingsocam.bsky.social doi.org/10.3765/plsa...
A trans linguistic perspective on multiple pronoun use in English | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
This paper examines language ideologies surrounding the perceived indexicality of gendered pronouns among speakers who use multiple pronoun sets. Through a discourse analysis of research interviews…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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By the way: Our members Hanna Bruns and Svenja Kranich @unibonn.bsky.social have a forthcoming paper (auf Deutsch) on coming out narratives on YouTube. We'll keep you posted!
More ideas on queer linguistic publications on #ComingOut? Feel free to add them below.
Have a great #ComingOutDay!
October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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dominant ideologies about gender and sexuality can both be contested and normalized. Too often still, trans characters are portrayed in a harmful way, Heritage concludes—and ends on a powerful call to "dismantle the systems of oppression" that marginalize trans people.
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Abstract Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the language used within videogames, specifically in relation to how videogame writers index the identities of transgender characters. Utilising data from the LGBTQ Video Game Archive (Shaw, 2017), which documents the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer content in games, I identify 22 videogames which contain references to transgender characters. A close qualitative reading of instances where transgender characters occur reveals two broad trends: i) there are multiple instances where such representation is unclear and ii) transgender identities are rarely overtly indexed. Within this second trend, I specifically focus on the role of implicature and inferencing in how transgender identities are constructed. That is, how these characters implicitly “come out” to the player and the shared knowledge needed to understand these implicatures. I argue that such shared knowledge is influenced by the social identities and lived experiences of the interpreter, which should be considered in the degree to which meaningNN is considered relevant. The research presented has implications for analysing more coming-out narratives and creating more connections between pragmatics, language, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as videogame/media studies.
October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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as a speech act obscures the various indexical practices of coming out covertly - reminiscent of Bucholtz & Hall's (2005) claim that identity emerges in interaction through a range of indexical processes. Coming out narratives, Heritage further argues, are sites where...
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Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach - Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall, 2005
The article proposes a framework for the analysis of identity as produced in linguistic interaction, based on the following principles: (1) iden...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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through implicature. They argue that the interpretation of this covert way for characters to "come out" to players largely depends on the players' social identity. An interesting detail: Heritage problematizes the notion of "coming out" altogether, arguing that the understanding of coming out...
October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Critical Discourse Studies and Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies. They analyze 22 games with trans characters, focusing on the instance where their gender identity is mentioned. Their main finding: the label "trans" is hardly mentioned, the transness of characters is mostly established...
October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM