Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities

Abstract

The ubiquity of gender in publications about language variation is tied to its status as a particularly salient, meaningful and cross-culturally relevant social category. This chapter reviews some of the broader trends in scholarship that focuses on the connection of language variation and gender and pays particular attention to scholarship that explores these issues as connected to sexuality and sexual identities. It focuses on those studies that examine linguistic variation as tied to lexical meaning, as an independent variable in statistical models seeking to understand language change, as emerging from interaction, and as a perceptual condition. The undeniable connection between language variation and gender renders gender as one of the most effective windows into both the study of language variation and the study of human cultures.

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