Velvet-Club Connecting Lesbians & Bi-women around the World
The lecture will examine the role of talk in constructing speakers as heterosexual beings. Heterosexualityis a cultural construction relying on strictly enforced norms for its continuing dominance. Queer linguisticsinitially focused on the language of marked groups, such as gay men and lesbians, but is now widening itsfocus to explore the discursive construction of the unmarked category, heterosexuality. Drawing on a corpusof spontaneous conversation, this lecture will explore how heterosexuality is done in everyday talk. Cameronand Kulicks idea of the heteronormative hierarchy will be used to demonstrate that not all heterosexualitiesare equal. The lecture will also demonstrate how closely sexuality and gender are linked, and will argue thatthis closeness is essential to the maintenance of heteronormativity. Jennifer Coates is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Roehampton, London. Her chief research interests are language, gender and sexuality, conversational structure, and conversational narrative. Her published work includes The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries (Routledge 1983); Women, Men and Language (3rd edition 2004); Women Talk. Conversation Between Women Friends (1996); Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities (2003); The Sociolinguistics of Narrative (co-edited with Joanna Thornborrow, 2005), and Language and Gender: A Reader (2nd edition co-edited with Pia Pichler, 2011). A collection of her language and gender papers is to be published in 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan under the title Women, Men and Everyday Talk. She has given lectures at universities all over the world and has held Visiting Professorships in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. She was made a Fellow of the English Association in 2002.
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