[英语学习]identity.pdf

Language in Society 33, 469–515. Printed in the United States of America DOI: 10.1017 S004740450044021 Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research M A R Y B U C H O L T Z Department of Linguistics 3607 South Hall University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100 bucholtz@ K I R A H A L L Department of Linguistics Campus Box 295 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0295 kira.hall@ A B S T R A C T The field of language and sexuality has gained importance within socio- culturally oriented linguistic scholarship. Much current work in this area emphasizes identity as one key aspect of sexuality. However, recent cri- tiques of identity-based research advocate instead a desire-centered view of sexuality. Such an approach artificially restricts the scope of the field by overlooking the close relationship between identity and desire. This connection emerges clearly in queer linguistics, an approach to language and sexuality that incorporates insights from feminist, queer, and sociolin- guistic theories to analyze sexuality as a broad sociocultural phenomenon. These intellectual approaches have shown that research on identity, sexual or otherwise, is most productive when the concept is understood as the outcome of intersubjectively negotiated practices and ideologies. To this end, an analytic framework for the semiotic study of social intersubjectiv- ity is presented. (Sexuality, feminism, identity, desire, queer linguistics.)* I N T R O D U