'I think Houston wants a kiss right?'

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Motschenbacher
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Transnational Media ◽  
Eurovision Song Contest ◽  
Love Song ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
Alternative Discourses ◽  
Shed Light

This article provides an ethnographically based discourse analysis of linguistic practices of heterosexual construction in a transnational media context, Eurovision Song Contest press conferences. It aims to shed light on how research on heterosexualities can contribute to the critical discussion of heteronormativity as commonly found in Queer Linguistics. The analysis identifies the following patterns of heterosexual construction: 1. talk about spouses, partners and family, 2. talk about heterosexual love song lyrics, 3. binary gender polarisation, and 4. the projecting of heteronormative desire onto participants. This order roughly corresponds to an increase in the heteronormative force of the constructions found. More blatant forms of heteronormative enforcement prove to cause negative reactions in this community of practice. It is argued that the sexual constructions documented incorporate aspects of both sexual identity and desire and that the transnational salience of the context facilitates a stronger confrontation of heterosexual construction with alternative discourses.

‘Now everybody can wear a skirt’: Linguistic constructions of non-heteronormativity at Eurovision Song Contest press conferences

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 590-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Motschenbacher
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Eurovision Song Contest ◽  
Love Song ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Gender Discourses

This article provides an ethnographically-based, in-depth discourse analysis of linguistic constructions of non-heteronormativity at Eurovision Song Contest press conferences. Contexts of high national salience have been found to largely support or even promote heteronormative discourses. The present study, by contrast, sets out to look at the construction of sexuality in a transnational community of practice of high European salience, in which macro-level heteronormativity has to face greater competition from the non-heteronormativity of the local context. The analysis identifies the following patterns of non-heteronormative construction: non-heteronormative talk about love song lyrics and performances, the construction of male same-sex desire, and the challenging of dominant gender discourses. Finally, it is argued that the European transnationalism of the context causes a normative shift from (nationally associated) heteronormativity to an expectation that non-heterosexual identities and desires be met with greater tolerance.

HYPERBOLIC EXPRESSIONS IN ONE DIRECTION’S LOVE SONG LYRICS

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Ruminda Ruminda ◽  
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Nida Kharimah
Keyword(s):  
Love Song ◽  
Song Lyrics

scholarly journals Invectives as a linguistic manipulation in the song discourse (on the example of compositions from “Eurovision” song contest)

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Knyazkov
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Eurovision Song Contest ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Poetic Composition

The subject of this research is the abusive language (invectives) prohibited by the rules of the International Song Contest “Eurovision”. The goal consists in substantiating the role of obscene language as a linguistic manipulation in song discourse of “Eurovision” contest. The tabooed words and expressions represent a wide array of lexical units for research by modern linguistic science based on the materials of various voice compositions. Using the lyrics of songs that participated in “Eurovision” and made top 10 chart, the author determined those that contain invectives. The scientific novelty consists in the first ever analysis of song lyrics that contained the lexical units of abusive language prohibited by the rules of “Eurovision”. It was determined that the compositions of multimodal discourse contain various invectives in verbal component. The authors of songs for “Eurovision” apply different linguistic manipulations to influence the live voting and ensure a spot in the finals for their composition. This is directly related to increase in the number of participating countries; therefore, the structure and content of verbal component of a musical-poetic composition of Eurovision plays an important role. Despite the prohibition by rules of the context to use tabooed lexicon in song lyrics, the author was able to identify certain violations in the English-language and Italian-language compositions. The conclusion is made that invectives in the song discourse are effective linguistic manipulations that enhance suggestive semantics of speech act, since all compositions made it to the top 10.

scholarly journals Seeing like a scientist: subjunctive forensics and shared ways of seeing in the Spanish forensic archive

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Lee Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Mass Grave ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Contemporary Spain ◽  
Shed Light

For two decades, Spaniards have turned to forensic science as a mode of unearthing diverse forms of evidence that shed light on the mechanics of fascist repression that emerged during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship that followed it. Due to the lasting effects of Spain’s Amnesty Law, which prohibits defining Franco’s victims as victims of crime, these exhumation projects exist at the unruly boundaries of legal procedure. In the absence of courts equipped to manage the evidence exhumed and produced in these endeavors, photographs documenting the forensic process are not sequestered by the law. Instead, they are made to be seen. Drawing on what the author describes as subjunctive forensics, she analyzes the emergence of new bodies of knowledge —or what could be called the forensic archive— in order to understand how visual evidence that straddles the scientific and the political, particularly photography, is produced, circulated and safe-guarded in contemporary Spain. Drawing on ethnographic research and the experience of photographing mass grave exhumations, the author explores how shared forms of seeing are produced, acquired, and shared among the community of practice surrounding historical memory work. By focusing on how professional and skilled visions are constituted, the article argues that it is in the production, circulation, and display of forensic photography that Spaniards visualize an uncomfortable past while also imagining alternative political futures.

Conchita Wurst im Kontext einer „Öffentlichen Religionspädagogik“

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-372
Author(s):  
Martin Fischer ◽  
Alfred Garcia Sobreira-Majer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
General Public ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Eurovision Song Contest ◽  
Academic Theology

Abstract Winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 Conchita Wurst raised questions about sexual identity by both the general public and pupils of Religious Education at schools, thus challenging teachers and academic theology alike. This article examines attitudes of Austrian pupils towards other than heteronormative lives; it outlines the role of theology from a genderconscious perspective in the context of the latest genetic research; and it discusses the role of public Religious Education in order to bring about a school that values diversity beyond heteronormativity.

What Have You Done for Me Lately? Educational Research and Urban Schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob S. Bennett ◽  
Benji Cohen
Keyword(s):  
School Districts ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Opportunity Gap ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Shed Light

Educational scholars have argued that poverty can hamper student achievement. In this critical discussion paper, we provide a historiography of how urban poverty increased in America over the last 30 years of the 20th century. We contend that educators and educational researchers working in P-12 urban schools should understand how federal urban policies contributed to the academic opportunity gap. To show how these federal polices still affect urban youth today, we provide demographic, housing, and crime data from two school districts in Nashville, Tennessee. These data shed light on the adverse effects federal policies have had on urban districts when compared to their suburban counterparts. As such, we believe there is a need for a reconceptualization of the type of research conducted in P-12 urban schools. We end by providing recommendations for how this shift might occur.

Lesbian Identity Construction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Jones
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Lesbian Women ◽  
Lesbian Identity ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Lesbian Community ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Key Aspects

This chapter considers the relevance of cultural discourses to speakers’ indexing of recognizable “lesbian” identities. It begins with a discussion of the ideological discourses that lesbian women have been found to draw upon in their interactions, explaining key aspects of lesbian culture and experience. It then provides a survey of linguistic research into lesbian discourse, offering an account of the mostly Western studies conducted to date. A critical discussion of the prevalence of “butch” and “femme” identities is provided, with the inclusion of data from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with a lesbian community of practice. The chapter demonstrates that these normative notions carry symbolic value in the construction of some lesbian identities, but also argues—through an account of studies looking at same-sex-identified women who identify with categories other than lesbian—for research that looks beyond the white, middle-class, Western women who so far dominate work in this area.

From gay language to normative discourse

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Baker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Language Use ◽  
American English ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Normative Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Identity Labels

A corpus of abstracts from the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference was subjected to a diachronic keywords analysis in order to identify concepts which had either stayed in constant focus or became more or less popular over time.1 Patterns of change in the abstracts corpus were compared against the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) in order to identify the extent that linguistic practices around language and sexuality were reflected in wider society. The analysis found that conference presenters had gradually begun to frame their analyses around queer theory and were using fewer sexual identity labels which were separating, collectivising and hierarchical in favour of more equalising and differentiating terminology. A number of differences between conference-goers’ language use and the language of general American English were identified and the paper ends with a critical discussion of the method used and the potential consequences of some of the findings.

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