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Abstract

Abstract

This article presents a short overview of the field of language and sexuality since the mid-1990s and discusses two issues that have repeatedly played a role in my own work in the field during the last decade: the incompatibility of the term with non-heteronormative language use, and the question of what counts as queer linguistic work.

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