Linguistique queer, sexualité et analyse du discours

La linguistique queer s’est constituée relativement récemment, mais a très rapidement trouvé sa place parmi les champs académiques qui s’intéressent à l’articulation entre langage, genre et sexualité. De la même manière que les recherches linguistiques sur le genre, la linguistique queer refuse d’aborder les pratiques langagières à travers le prisme de la binarité femme/homme (ou encore à travers un choix réduit d’identités que l’on associe à des pratiques et préférences sexuelles, telles que homo/hétéro). Un des objectifs de la linguistique queer est de révéler les suppositions/idéologies qui amènent les chercheur·euse·s à considérer le genre comme un cadre prédéterminé et figé.Queer linguistics is a relatively recent academic formation, but one that has quickly become firmly embedded in the current conversations about language, gender, and sexuality. As is also the case in language and gender studies (see Coates, this volume), queer linguistics refuses to frame discussions of linguistic practices in terms of an assumed male/female binary (or on a limited set of identities based solely on erotic practices and preferences). Instead, queer linguistics exposes the assumptions that lead researchers to view gender in terms of a predetermined, static framework

En torno a una cierta "negativa lavender a expresar(se)"

A través del análisis de un corpus discursivo multicultural, este trabajo demuestra que no hay razón para presuponer que "estar fuera del armario" sea la meta con la cual se comprometen o deban comprometerse, necesaria y universalmente, todos los sujetos identificados como homosexuales. A partir la tesis del "discurso del sujeto tácito" y de la "cautela" estratégica, el artículo da cuenta de la negativa -por parte de una diversidad de hablantes varones gays y trans, no blancos o no angloamericanos- a expresar verbalmente su propia sexualidad, que ellos viven abiertamente. Se trata de una práctica sociolingüística "lavender" que, distinguiéndose de la revelación pública como el modelo angloamericano de identificación y pertenencia comunitaria gay, tampoco debe confundirse con el silencio o el closet: es una opción de enunciación de los propios sujetos sexuales -homo y trans- que el autor analiza en comunidades afroamericanas, hispanas, francesas, taiwanesas y en hombres transgénero de Washington DC.Through an analysis of cross-cultural discursive data, this paper demonstrates that there is no reason to assume that 'outness' must be the universal goal with which all same-sex identifed subjects must be engaged. Based on the thesis of the 'tacit subject discourse' and of 'stealth', the article accounts for the refusal -on the part of a number of diferent non-white or non-Anglo-American, male gay and female-to-male transgender speakers- to voice their openly lived sexuality. It is claimed that this is a 'lavender' sociolinguistic practice, which must be distinguished from both silence (the closet) and public disclosure as the Anglo-American model for gay identifcation and community belonging: it is an enunciative choice that the homosexual and transgender subjects themselves make, and that the author analyses in Afro-American, Hispanic, French and Taiwanese communities and in transgender men in the Washington DC area

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Multiple normativities: Language, gender, sexuality and men’s induction into the U.S. military during World War II

Departing from traditional treatments of hetero- and homonormativity as singular formations (Duggan 2003, Lewin 2009, Warner 2003), this paper argues that normative demands and their regulatory consequences can be as variable and flexible as are depictions of compliance, resistance or refusal (Menon, 2008, Pêcheux 1982). To this end, this paper focuses on the conversations taking place at military induction sites during WWII by means of which military personnel determined whether candidate for induction should be barred from military service because of their (alleged) homosexuality. The military personnel had not been given uniform criteria for making these assessments. Each evaluator made his own judgements about the sexuality of each candidate that he interviewed. So details of embodiment, vestment, language use, of allure that disqualified some candidates could also be ignored as other candidates were admitted to service with problem. As a result, 5,000 of the 16 million men who entered the induction system were entry to service for reasons of inappropriate sexuality. Had consistent surveillance criteria been applied, that figure should have been closer to 160,000 rejections. Through the use of a scavenger methodology (Leap in press, following Halberstam 1998), this project has assembled a diverse collection of narratives about World War II induction experiences from military personnel and induction candidates, men and women from diverse social backgrounds. A close reading (Levine 2015) of these narratives provides the basis for the analysis proposed here. Importantly, among other findings, the candidate and military personnel narratives agree that multiple normative stances -- what is or is not evidence of acceptable sexuality -- does not weaken regulatory power of normative rule, whereas multiple responses to normativity can be the first toward a manipulation