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Online First articles are the published Version of Record, made available as soon as they are finalized and formatted. They are in general accessible to current subscribers, until they have been included in an issue, which is accessible to subscribers to the relevant volume
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Review of Xu (2021): Silencing Shanghai – Language and Identity in Urban China
Author(s): Richard VanNess SimmonsAvailable online: 28 August 2023More Less
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“I am who I am”
Author(s): Su-Hie Ting, Jiin-Yih Yeo, Collin Jerome and Hsin-Nie LingAvailable online: 25 July 2023More LessAbstractThe study examined how LGBTQ individuals negotiate their identities in the Malaysian heteronormative society using the Discourse-Historical Approach. In-depth interviews were carried out with 13 LGBTQ individuals to find out the discursive strategies they used in describing the triggers for coming out, their experiences, and the reasons for their struggles. The analysis of the interview data showed that the participants used the “destiny” and “rights” arguments to counter the “legal”, “religious” and “traditional values” arguments used by heterosexuals to reject them. Referents and personal pronouns were selectively used by LGBTQ participants to present different perspectives, “us” versus “them” (heterosexuals), “I” and other LGBTQ individuals, and “I” versus “they” or “you” (other sexual orientations). The findings have implications that are relevant to mitigation of LGBTQ identities in contexts which have strong heteronormative norms due to legal, religion and traditional values.
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Sexual anti-languages on social media
Author(s): Chao Lu, Jingyuan Zhang and Ke ZhangAvailable online: 20 June 2023More LessAbstractThe past decades have witnessed a growing preoccupation with gay languages across the world. However, little attention has been devoted to gay language in the Chinese context. To address the gap, this article examined the case of gay language used on a Chinese social media. Specifically speaking, we conducted a corpus-based analysis of sexual anti-languages (SA) on Blued, by following Halliday’s concept of anti-language defined as an extreme case of social dialects and the language of an anti-society. Using a total of 1,744 text-headlines collected from Blued users’ profiles, we identified and grouped Chinese SA into six categorizations. The findings reveal that Blued abounds with SA, each of which has undergone a unique formation process. In the end, we concluded by providing several directions for future research.
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Review of Kirkpatrick & Linux (2021): Is English an Asian Language?
Author(s): Jette G. Hansen EdwardsAvailable online: 22 May 2023More Less
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Review of Price & Harbisher (2022): Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse
Available online: 24 February 2023More Less
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Review of Leap (2020): Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History
Author(s): Paul Ayodele OnanugaAvailable online: 18 November 2022More Less
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Queering gender in Indonesian Instagram
Author(s): Mega Subekti, Aquarini Priyatna and Ari J. AdipurwawidjanaAvailable online: 15 November 2022More LessAbstractThe popularity of Mimi Peri as a queer micro-celebrity on Instagram shows a paradox in the Indonesian digital society, widely known for being very heteronormative towards gender and sexual identities. Despite the controversy over their queer performance and identity, Mimi Peri’s positive image as a “kind-hearted” and funny micro-celebrity managed to attract the attention of 1.9 million followers on Instagram. By using a virtual ethnographic paradigm within the framework of queer studies, this research examines how queer performativity in the @mimi.peri Instagram account during the periode between 2017 and 2018 presented and related to the Camp strategy. Switching their virtual identity, playing a role as a “female fairy”, parodying, and representing it as a comic figure have been identified as Mimi Peri’s practice and strategy to effectively gain the attention and acceptance of their followers. While there are established assumptions of queer subjects as fun and funny, we also argue that the strategy to commodify their comical performance can be seen as a form of negotiation to the predominant gender norms on Instagram.
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Negotiating the language of gender and sexuality
Author(s): Benedict J. L. Rowlett and Putsalun ChhimAvailable online: 28 October 2022More LessAbstractThis case study focuses on the educational materials created by an NGO drop-in centre for the queer/questioning community in a Cambodian city. These materials consist of bilingual posters (English and Khmer) on display at the centre which provide explanations to those who make use of this space about diverse gender/sexual identities (LGBTQ+), as well as online resources featured on the NGO’s website/social media that raise awareness of these issues at both local and global levels. The study seeks to gain critical insight into the use of certain linguistic resources for sexuality education at this site of instruction. To do so, we present a multimodal discourse analysis of a sample of the materials, together with an analysis of metapragmatic reflections drawn from interviews conducted with the centre’s director. We therefore attend to how multilingual linguistic resources, and other semiotic forms, are being used to foster and shape knowledges about gender and sexualities at this site of community engagement, and how a metapragmatic negotiation of these knowledges in the interview reveals identity work that impacts these linguistic choices and their potential effects.
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Othering within the gay dating community?
Author(s): Jonalou S. Labor, Christian Jaycee Samonte and Norberto D. BanaAvailable online: 08 August 2022More LessAbstractGay men and the bakla in the Philippines have long battled invisibility that any chance to perform their gendered identities is a welcome gamble and opportunity to self-represent and be visible. This study looked into the nature of self-representation among gay and bakla in dating applications and how these representations become source of tensions in the LGBTQ+ community. In this study, ten gay men and ten bakla were interviewed to construct their self-representations and unearth the reasons why such presentations are enacted in the dating apps. Findings showed that gay men displayed heteronormative gay masculinity. Further, most of the bakla self-censored their profiles to get matches and dates. There were some bakla, however, who refused invisibility and used the apps as space for showing their authentic gender identity. Results of this study also identified the role of technology in enabling masculine idealizations that emphasize hegemonic masculinity while reinforcing bakla invisibility.
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Review of Kong (2019): Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten
Author(s): Chao LuAvailable online: 19 July 2022More Less
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Review of Chan (2021): The politics of dating apps: Gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban China
Author(s): Lok Tung ChuiAvailable online: 05 July 2022More Less
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Coming out for another
Author(s): Ping-Hsuan WangAvailable online: 31 May 2022More LessAbstractThis study adopts three-level narrative positioning to analyze the construction of the closet and integrate the identity- and desired-centered approaches to language and sexuality. In two coming-out narratives, the same-sex desiring Indian immigrants in the U.S. portray their heterosexually married counterparts as ‘deceiving and hiding’. In their recounts (level 1), the narrators position themselves opposite these story characters to create an ‘open and honest’ self. In the interaction (level 2), they evoke shared cultural knowledge with the interviewer regarding the pressure from family. Against the socio-historical context (level 3), the narrators’ outness is accentuated through such authenticating conditions as one’s marital status and nationality. Such coming-out binarism reinforces a normativity that validates ‘out’ homosexuality while/by discrediting its ‘closeted’ form. The theoretical integration highlights the interviewer’s role in coming-out research and illustrates the exclusionary force of coming out that reconfigures same-sex desires into hierarchized, intelligible sexual identities.
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Review of Konstantinovskaia (2020): The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies
Author(s): Hannah E. Dahlberg-DoddAvailable online: 23 May 2022More Less
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Singapore hawker centres
Author(s): Cher Leng LeeAvailable online: 25 March 2022More LessAbstractThis paper is a sociolinguistic study of the linguistic landscape of signboards in Singapore hawker centres. It examines the language(s) displayed on the signboards of 2,145 stalls in the 20 largest hawker centres in Singapore. Hawker centres in Singapore are open-air eating places patronised by thousands of people each day. With less government intervention in the languages that can be displayed on hawker centre signboards, the signs reflect the languages used and identities adopted by the masses in a multilingual setting. This language ecology enables us to observe how languages interact at individual and societal levels in hawker centres and how linguistic diversity is maintained despite the apparent widespread use of English in Singapore. We examine how besides the monolingual, bilingual and multilingual and hybrid signboards, hawker centres are unique habitats in this language ecology where non-Mandarin dialects are preserved, and traditional Chinese characters are commonly seen, in a globalised Singapore. The hawker centres showcase a linguistic landscape of identity, diversity, and continuity.
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Foreign-born instructor humor perception and effects on self-perceived affective and cognitive learning
Author(s): Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Minna Mars Logemann and Kevin BryantAvailable online: 18 February 2022More LessAbstractIn this cross-sectional study, a total of 394 U.S. American and Thai college students took an online survey investigating how they perceived humor used by their foreign-born instructors and how those perceptions then predicted their self-perceived cognitive and affective learning. Moderated mediation analyses revealed both student groups understood affiliative humor and considered it appropriate and humorous which then enhanced their learning. Aggressive humor positively predicted Thai students’ learning through the mediating role of humorousness and negatively predicted U.S. students’ learning through the mediating role of appropriateness. Self-defeating humor enhanced U.S. students’ learning through the moderating role of appropriateness. This study clarified the influence of different humor styles on learning and extended the instructional humor processing theory by demonstrating the moderating effect of culture. With the internationalization of higher education and increasing number of foreign-born instructors, this pioneering study provided preliminary suggestions for effectively using humor in cross-cultural classrooms.
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A genre-based investigation of the “About Us” section of private hospitals’ websites
Author(s): Nasser Salimi Aghbolagh, Azirah Hashim and Cecilia Cheong Yin MeiAvailable online: 22 January 2021More LessAbstractMedical tourism industry is currently viewed as one of the lucrative sources of income for some countries and in essence, owes much of its reputation and success to private hospitals and the Internet ( Connell, 2006 ). However, how these private hospitals discursively present themselves to prospective health tourists in order to entice them to use their medical services rather than their rivals’ still remains under-researched. Following the ESP genre school, this study seeks to explore the “About Us” sections of private hospitals’ websites and aims to see how such sections are rhetorically designed and constructed. Using Bhatia’s ( 1993 , 2004 ) move structures for promotional texts, this study examines the rhetorical structure of the constituent webpages of the “About Us” sections of forty-one Malaysian private hospitals’ websites. Our study demonstrates how Malaysian private hospitals utilize a number of cognitive structures to present and promote themselves in their “About Us” sections. Our findings are, in general, beneficial for the private hospitals in Malaysia or elsewhere in the world, and in particular, are helpful for novice medical website designers.
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Language learner self-management
Author(s): J. Rubin
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