Linguistics Out of the Closet: The Interdisciplinarity of Gender and Sexuality in Language Science - Paperback

by Tyler Everett Kibbey (Editor)

Queer linguistics - in its position as both a linguistic science of and for queer folk - is inherently agitating to the disciplinary anxiety of a general linguistic science. It represents, as all queer science does, a disruption of the normative modes of knowledge production and a displacement of academic authority. This collection reconsiders the placement of the queer subject, both as the researcher and as the researched, within and beyond the discipline and provides an intellectual space for the interdisciplinary (and sometimes anti-disciplinary) linguistic science of gender and sexuality. In three sections, it respectively considers the development of hyper-speciated queer linguistic subfields, the interdisciplinarity of intersectional approaches to queer language, and the institution of queer linguistic science both within and beyond the academy. Taken together, the essays in this collection confront the scientific and institutional discipline of linguistics from a queer vantage point, one which is perhaps inherently interdisciplinary in its formulation.

Back Jacket

What does it mean for queer linguistics - in its position as a linguistic science of and for queer folk - to be interdisciplinary? Is the queer subject inherently opposed to the institution of discipline altogether? This book explores the study of language through a queer disciplinary lens and seeks to re-imagine disciplinarity in its myriad forms, with gender and sexuality being treated as a complementary rather than subsidiary field of study.

Author Biography

Tyler Everett Kibbey, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.