Sexuality

• Baker


  gay people puns, acronyms, specific lexis which only make sense in to the gay community
• Lakoff 


  Gay men adopt deficit features to mirror features to mirror women's long. Show vulnerability + subordinate
• Lucy Jones - Dyke girl 


  show a community of middle aged white British women who refer to themselves as Dyke. In doing this it creates factions in the lesbian community. Girly + Dykes
• Barrett sexuality 


  voice changes in gay medical school student.

  • falsetto utterances in conversation
  • exponded range - creakier voice - females breathiness
• Kulik


  you cannot tell someone's sexuality because of their language
• Lucy Jones: Transformability internet work as a guide and gives information to many trans
• Lucy Jones: tranformativity

  • internet work as a guide and gives information to many trans people across the world
  • sparks ideologies around what it means to be authentically trans
• Moore study

  • non-standard use 'I were' + 'she were' more spread in the south of England.
  • teenage girls still using that robust feature in the dialect = signal of their localness. School showed communities of practice - townies + popular + geeks + Eden valley girls
• Butler 


  you use of language + behaviour can provide an identity. For example, gay men may choose to adopt feminine speech patterns to consciously categorise themselves as different from heterosexual men.
• communities of practice 


  a group of people who share understanding, perspectives and forms of language use as a result of meeting regularly overtime e.g. football club
• heteronormativity 


  heterosexuality is the norm is society and anything else isn't and assuming that everyone is
• feminism


  the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of equality of the sexes