The desire for identity and the identity of desire
language, gender and sexuality in the Greek context
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v9i1.18460Keywords:
desire, gender, identity, queer linguistics, sexualityAbstract
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.
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Leap, W. L. and Motschenbacher, H. (2012) Launching a new phase in language and sexuality studies. Journal of Language and Sexuality 1: 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.1.1.01lea
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Makri-Tsilipakou, M. (2010) ? ‘????????? ??????’ ??? ? ?????? ??? ????????. [‘Women’s language’ and the language of women.] In V. Kantsa, V. Moutafi and E. Papataxiarchis (eds) ???? ??? ?????????? ????????? ??? ???????? ?????? [Gender and the Social Sciences in Contemporary Greece] 119–46. Athens: Alexandria.
Milani, T. (2013) Are ‘queers’ really ‘queer’? Language, identity and same-sex desire in a South African online community. Discourse and Society 24: 615–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926513486168
Morrish, L. and Leap, W. (2007) Sex talk: language, desire, identity, and beyond. In H. Sauntson and S. Kyratzis (eds) Language, Sexualities, and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 17–40. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Morrish, L. and Sauntson, H. (2007) New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230599406
Motschenbacher, H. (2010) Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/impact.29
Motschenbacher, H. (2011) Taking Queer Linguistics further: sociolinguistics and critical heteronormativity research. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 212: 149–79.
Motschenbacher, H. and Stegu, M. (2013) Queer linguistic approaches to discourse. Discourse and Society 24: 519–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926513486069
Ochs, E. (1992) Indexing gender. In A. Duranti and C. Goodwin (eds) Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon 335–58. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pavlidou, T.-S. ([2002]2006) ?????? – ????? – ????: ??????????, ??????????? ??? ???????? ??????. [Language – grammatical gender – social gender: problems, inquiries and the Greek language.] In T.-S. Pavlidou (ed.) ?????? – ????? – ???? [Language – Grammatical Gender – Social Gender], 2nd edn, 15–64. Thessaloniki: Institute of Modern Greek Studies.
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Queen, R. (2007) Sociolinguistic horizons: language and sexuality. Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 314–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2007.00019.x
Rubin, G. (1999) Thinking sex: notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality. In R. Parker and P. Aggleton (eds) Culture, Society, and Sexuality: A Reader 143–78. London: University College London Press.
Sauntson, H. and Kyratzis, S. (2007) Introduction: language, sexualities, and desires. In H. Sauntson and S. Kyratzis (eds) Language, Sexualities, and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 1–16. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Taylor, J. R. (2010). Linguistic Categorization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Thorne, L. (2013) ‘But I’m attracted to women’: sexuality and sexual identity performance in interactional discourse among bisexual students. Journal of Language and Sexuality 2: 70–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.2.1.03tho
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Published
2015-03-19
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Special Issue Articles
How to Cite
Canakis, C. (2015). The desire for identity and the identity of desire: language, gender and sexuality in the Greek context. Gender and Language, 9(1), 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v9i1.18460
