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Sociolinguistic Positionality in LGBTQ+ Research: Gender Performance Among SoMa Drag Queens

Explore the semiotic interplay between phonetic variables and visual presentation in studying gender performance among SoMa drag queens in San Francisco. This research delves into non-normativity, gender performativity, and the role of the researcher in sociolinguistic studies. Investigate the nuances of phonetic patterns and social meaning to understand the complexities of language and identity in the LGBTQ+ community.

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Sociolinguistic Positionality in LGBTQ+ Research: Gender Performance Among SoMa Drag Queens

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  1. The positionality of the researcher in sociolinguistic researchLGBTQ+ Perspectives in Linguistics Jeremy Calder (they/she/he) University of Colorado Boulder

  2. Sociolinguistics • How do different people speak differently and what do those differences say about who the speakers are? • Traditional ethnography and social meaning

  3. The positionality of the researcher

  4. Gender performance among SoMa drag queens • Gender performativity • Non-normativity • Semiotic interplay between phonetic variables and visual presentation • Fronted /s/

  5. SoMa, San Francisco

  6. SoMa, San Francisco

  7. Radical SoMa queens

  8. Phonetic patterns and social meaning

  9. Data and sociolinguistic interpretation

  10. The role of the “I” in linguistics • The person vs the researcher • Ethnography: relationship between researcher and community • What happens when knowledge is co-constructed? • Outsider vs insider • What is a valid study? What is real linguistics?

  11. Thank you! jeremy.calder@colorado.edu

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