Linguistic uses of a group of lesbians and gays: issues of identity and style discussed in a directed interview

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Ana Beatriz Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Working Papers em Lingüística (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/workingpapers/article/view/76829

This article seeks to investigate subjects’ perceptions about the possible lesbian’s and gay’s identity on speech as a marker of these identity and, even if there are, what are the linguistic uses associated with lesbians/gays. The corpus consists of four interviews conducted in pairs with a total of eight subjects (four self-declared lesbian and four self-declared gay). To generate and analyze these uses, a methodological tool to analyze the corpus is proposed, considering interaction, intimacy and informality. Variationist third wave studies (ECKERT, 2012, 2016) establish themselves in post-modernity - marked by the fluidity of the subjects (RAMPTON, 2006) - and present a redimensioning, since a) the social variables are prioritized, subjects and their discursive practices are the locus of analysis; b) the variation perspective is reversed, reflecting the social place, for variation as a constitutive resource of social significance; and c) methodologies emerge from the stylistic practices in which the subjects are involved. Thus, methodologies should not be taken for granted and should not be replicated without considering the subjects multiplicity and the research singularities. It was observed that i) the subjects believe that there is not only an identity related to lesbians/gays; ii) the majority of them pointed out that they feel comfortable to demonstrate their identity with LGBT subjects or close people and in friendly places; iii) everyone considers that speech can act as a marker of lesbian/gay style and identity; and iv) all subjects agree that there are linguistic characteristic uses of lesbians/gays.