desire for identity and the identity of desire

Autor:	Costas Canakis
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Subjectivity Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Modern Greek Gender studies Human sexuality Language and Linguistics Gender Studies Philosophy Queer Conversation Sociology Heteronormativity Indexicality media_common
Zdroj:	Gender and Language. 9:59-81
ISSN:	1747-633X 1747-6321
DOI:	10.1558/genl.v9i1.18460
Popis:	This paper focuses on three recent studies investigating the discursive construction of sexuality in Modern Greek – in contexts as diverse as same-sex online personals, the performance of heterosexuality in a mixed-sex conversation and coming out narratives – arguing that critical approaches to heteronormativity, the hallmark of queer linguistics, can hardly be dissociated from issues of ‘identity’ and ‘desire’ in language, since heteronormativity specifically aims at regulating their correlation vis-à-vis gender norms. These studies investigate the indexical relation between language, gender and sexuality as experienced by socially positioned agents whose subjectivity is constructed with reference to their desires and whose desires allude to intelligible (and eroticisable) subjectivities. Therefore, any attempt at reductive theorising based on an exclusivist platform, inspired by either identity or desire alone, fails to capture crucial aspects of sexually relevant language.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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