This introductory essay to the Discourse & Society special issue on Queer Linguistic
Approaches to Discourse discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the connection …

The present article explores how the concept of normativity can be used as a starting point
for research on language and sexuality, such as Queer Linguistics. Recent language and …

After lesbian couples have decided to become parents, their family-making journey entails a
wide range of encounters with professionals in fertility clinics and/or in maternal and child …

Options and possibilities for lesbian parents have changed fundamentally since the turn of
the millennium. A legal change in 2003 enabled a same-sex couple to share legal …

This chapter presents research that has focused on the question of language and sexual
identities. This question has largely been concerned with the place of language in such …

This paper reports on a manual monitoring of online representations of LGBT persons in the
Republic of Cyprus for the period April 2015–February 2016. The article contextualizes the …

Female same-sex couples in Sweden have had access to fertility treatment within public
health care since 2005. Treatment is generally tax funded, with a minimal of personal …

When a lesbian couple conceives through donor insemination, the partners transform their
relations to each other. In this article, I explore how women in lesbian relations depict their …

The concept of hate speech as a speech against a particular community because of its
(perceived) specific characteristics has been adopted in most Western countries, featuring in …

Cet article explore les discours des publics engagés dans l'humiliation en ligne, utilisant
notamment le mépris, émotion que nous suggérons être au cœur des discours de haine …