- Conversation Analysis, Language, and Sexuality
- Corpus Linguistics and Sexuality
- Critical Discourse Studies of Language and Sexuality
- Talk About Intimate Subjects: Ethnographic Approaches to Language, Gender, and Sexuality
- Linguistic Landscapes of Language and Sexuality
- Mediated Discourse Analysis in Language and Sexuality Research
- Semantics and Pragmatics: Blurring Boundaries and Constructing Contexts
- The Semiotics of Love
- From “Gay Lisp” to “Fierce Queen”: The Sociophonetics of Sexuality’s Most Iconic Variable
- Aging and Chronic Illness in Language and Sexuality
- Animacy as a Sexual Device
- Powerful Inscriptions: On the Semiotic Phenomenology of BDSM
- Sexuality and Bilingualism
- Bisexuality: Narrating Sexual Fluidity
- Categorization and Indexicality in Language and Sexuality Research
- Trash: Language, Sexuality, and Social Class
- Diasporic Sexual Citizenship: Queer Language, (Im)Possible Subjects, and Transfiliation
- Mediatizing Sex: Sexting and/as Digital Discourse
- Language, Ability, and Breast Cancer
- Language and Embodied Sexuality
- Gay (White) Male Speech and the E(race)sure of Identity
- Toward a Notion of Embodiment: Gestures, Sign Language, and Sexuality
- Indexicality of Grammar: The Case of Japanese Transgender Speakers
- Hate in language, Hate and Language
- A Critical Encyclopedia of Heterosex
- Preadolescence: Social Status and the Heterosexual Market
- Discourses of Disease: The Lifeworld, the Healthworld, and HIV/AIDS
- Language, Sexuality, History
- Semiotics of Homonationalism
- Homophobia and the Media: A Sample Critical Discourse Analysis
- Language and Intimate Relations
- Queer Thinking about Language Learning: Current Research and Future Directions
- Lesbian Identity Construction
- Queering School Literacy Practices: Interventionist Approaches
- Sexual Stylistics
- Language and the Regulation of Marriage
- Narratives of Queer Migration
- Enacting New Worlds of Gender: Nonbinary Speakers, Racialized Gender, and Anti-Colonialism
- Language and Sexual Normativity
- Imagining Performances: Entangled Temporalities and Corporalities in Drag King Encounters
- Queer Performativity
- Neoliberal Pleasure: Intimate Talk about Female Sexual Experience
- Populist Discourse and Desire for Social Justice
- Who Speaks for Porn?
- Pronouns and Gender in Language
- At the Crossroads of Language, Race, and Sexuality
- Resignifications: Linguistic Resistance and Queer Expressions of Latinidad
- Religious Speech and Silence about Sexuality
- Reproduction and Language
- Doing Tricks: Affordances and Challenges for a Sociolinguistics of Sex Work
- Sexual Harassment, Speech Acts, and Public Secrets in U.S. Higher Education
- Language and Sexual Politics: Discursive Negotiations of Belonging
- Language and Sexual Violence in the Legal System: “He Said/She Said” Accounts and Beyond
- The Signs of Deaf Female Masculinity: Styles of Gendering/Queering ASL
- The “Gay Voice” and “Brospeak”: Toward a Systematic Model of Stance
- Sexual Stigma: Markedness, Taboo, Containment, and Emergence
- Transgender Language, Transgender Moment: Toward a Trans Linguistics
- Sexuality and Translation: Rewriting Identities and Desires
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter reviews scholarship on queer language in the diaspora through the lens of flexible accumulation and neoliberal citizenship. The relevance of these ideas to queer linguistic data is illustrated through an analysis of ethnographic fieldwork with 2Fik (pronounced “Toufik”), a French citizen of Moroccan descent and multidisciplinary artist living in Québec, Canada. Queer diasporic speakers like 2Fik stake claims of belonging to multiple spatiotemporalities, drawing on new intersectional possibilities involving families of origin, various local communities, and still wider diasporic terrains—for example, the Maghrebi homeland(s), French society and Francophone global cities, and the broader global and often queer North Atlantic. Yet the use of flexible language(s) associated with “queer diasporic citizenship” differs from previous examples in the extant scholarship. 2Fik’s use of performance and virtual-mediated spaces questions the response to his invitations to participate in a diasporic citizenry, highlighting elements of hypersubjectivity, dis-identification, transgressive filiation (transfiliation), and dissidence.
Keywords: diaspora, dis-identification, flexible language, hypersubjectivity, neoliberal citizenship, transfiliation
Department of French and Italian, University of Arizona
Department of English, University of Nebraska, Omaha
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- Conversation Analysis, Language, and Sexuality
- Corpus Linguistics and Sexuality
- Critical Discourse Studies of Language and Sexuality
- Talk About Intimate Subjects: Ethnographic Approaches to Language, Gender, and Sexuality
- Linguistic Landscapes of Language and Sexuality
- Mediated Discourse Analysis in Language and Sexuality Research
- Semantics and Pragmatics: Blurring Boundaries and Constructing Contexts
- The Semiotics of Love
- From “Gay Lisp” to “Fierce Queen”: The Sociophonetics of Sexuality’s Most Iconic Variable
- Aging and Chronic Illness in Language and Sexuality
- Animacy as a Sexual Device
- Powerful Inscriptions: On the Semiotic Phenomenology of BDSM
- Sexuality and Bilingualism
- Bisexuality: Narrating Sexual Fluidity
- Categorization and Indexicality in Language and Sexuality Research
- Trash: Language, Sexuality, and Social Class
- Diasporic Sexual Citizenship: Queer Language, (Im)Possible Subjects, and Transfiliation
- Mediatizing Sex: Sexting and/as Digital Discourse
- Language, Ability, and Breast Cancer
- Language and Embodied Sexuality
- Gay (White) Male Speech and the E(race)sure of Identity
- Toward a Notion of Embodiment: Gestures, Sign Language, and Sexuality
- Indexicality of Grammar: The Case of Japanese Transgender Speakers
- Hate in language, Hate and Language
- A Critical Encyclopedia of Heterosex
- Preadolescence: Social Status and the Heterosexual Market
- Discourses of Disease: The Lifeworld, the Healthworld, and HIV/AIDS
- Language, Sexuality, History
- Semiotics of Homonationalism
- Homophobia and the Media: A Sample Critical Discourse Analysis
- Language and Intimate Relations
- Queer Thinking about Language Learning: Current Research and Future Directions
- Lesbian Identity Construction
- Queering School Literacy Practices: Interventionist Approaches
- Sexual Stylistics
- Language and the Regulation of Marriage
- Narratives of Queer Migration
- Enacting New Worlds of Gender: Nonbinary Speakers, Racialized Gender, and Anti-Colonialism
- Language and Sexual Normativity
- Imagining Performances: Entangled Temporalities and Corporalities in Drag King Encounters
- Queer Performativity
- Neoliberal Pleasure: Intimate Talk about Female Sexual Experience
- Populist Discourse and Desire for Social Justice
- Who Speaks for Porn?
- Pronouns and Gender in Language
- At the Crossroads of Language, Race, and Sexuality
- Resignifications: Linguistic Resistance and Queer Expressions of Latinidad
- Religious Speech and Silence about Sexuality
- Reproduction and Language
- Doing Tricks: Affordances and Challenges for a Sociolinguistics of Sex Work
- Sexual Harassment, Speech Acts, and Public Secrets in U.S. Higher Education
- Language and Sexual Politics: Discursive Negotiations of Belonging
- Language and Sexual Violence in the Legal System: “He Said/She Said” Accounts and Beyond
- The Signs of Deaf Female Masculinity: Styles of Gendering/Queering ASL
- The “Gay Voice” and “Brospeak”: Toward a Systematic Model of Stance
- Sexual Stigma: Markedness, Taboo, Containment, and Emergence
- Transgender Language, Transgender Moment: Toward a Trans Linguistics
- Sexuality and Translation: Rewriting Identities and Desires
