The Language Of Evaluation Book

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction 1

Contested terms? 3

Gender, language and feminist theory 5

Sexuality, language and queer theory 6

Communities of practice 8

Exploring relationships between gender, desire and sexuality 11

Language, sexuality and identity: our perspective 14

Tactics of intersubjectivity 22

Key arguments 24

1 Examining Lesbian Conversations as Discourses of Identity and Resistance 25

Is there such a thing as 'lesbian conversation'? 26

Structural-functional discourse analysis (SFDA) 28

Francis and Hunston's system of analysis 31

Summary of analysis 47

Gender and sexuality identities 48

Lesbian conversations and communities of practice 49

2 Analysing Evaluation in Coming Out Narratives 53

'Coming out' 54

Appraisal 56

Judgement 60

The data 62

Themes in coming out narratives 63

Concluding remarks 84

3 The Language of Shame, Risk and Concealment 87

Approaching this research 87

Shame 88

Discourse and transgression 91

Ethics and the lesbian teacher 93

Discourse, performativity, identity 96

Lesbian performance and visibility 97

Concealment/disguisement 99

Performing with pronouns 101

Lesbian discourse strategies 103

Deictic centring and confounding 104

Inside/outside? 105

Inside/outside: a materialist view 107

Conclusion 109

4 Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica 112

Pornography or erotica? 113

Using a specialised corpus 117

Setting the context: lesbians don't talk about sex! 118

Corpus linguistics and the study of erotic texts 120

Lexical frequency findings 124

Collocations of some frequent words 125

Keywords 130

A lesbian authorship ofself? 133

5 Sexual Identity and Gender: Discursive Constructions of 'Butch' and 'Femme' in Film 137

Femme and butch: past and current debates 138

The use of film as data: levels of representation 144

Techniques of analysis 146

Bound 150

Gazon Maudit 155

Set It Off 159

Some conclusions 164

6 Camp Codes and Subtle Outing: How the British Broadsheet Press Learned Gay Slang 166

The political context of outing 167

Case study 1 Michael Portillo: some brief biographical notes 169

Case study 2 Peter Mandelson: some brief biographical notes 171

Linguistic framework of outing 174

The broadsheet data 178

Pragmatic outing 179

Camp discourse 186

Discussion 192

Conclusion 196

Conclusion 198

Returning to communities of practice 199

Relationships between sexuality and gender 200

Identity 202

Iterability 204

Tactics of intersubjectivity 205

Studying sexuality using applied linguistics 206

Moving forward 208

Bibliography 210

Index 220