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This proseminar aims at linking Gender/Queer Studies and Linguistics. After clarifying basic concepts in language and gender research (as “queer” and “heteronormativity”), you will learn about the origins and the historical development of Gender and Queer Studies and their contact points to Linguistics. We will look at the rise of Queer Linguistics, a field in which concepts from Queer Theories are transferred to Linguistics, targeting the linguistic manifestation of heteronormativity and, connected with it, binary gender and sexual identity discourses. We will focus on critical heteronormativity research from a linguistic point of view, and we will examine in what ways several linguistic sub-disciplines can be approached from a Gender/Queer Studies’ perspective. We will deal with the multidimensional relations between language, gender and sexuality by addressing concrete research issues as the linguistic manifestation of binary (e.g. gender) categories, performativity of linguistic signs, discursive construction of gender and sexual identities, heteronormative patterns in language use, discursive materialization of heteronormativity and gender binarisms, “wounding effects” of heteronormative linguistic forms, etc. A list of topics for presentations and research will be presented in the seminar. For detailed course requirements please consult the respective module descriptions. |
