TALK: Doing Gender Categorization:
Use and Suppression of Gendered Pronouns in Talk About Drag Queens
N.L. Klein (Sociology, UC Santa Barbara)
Friday, May 4 / 1:30 PM / Phelps 2536
Pronouns are small words that perform important interactional tasks. As subsequent reference forms, pronouns allow speakers to index initial person reference formulations and listeners to track referred-to parties. Pronouns are systematically relevant for subsequent person reference, and can be seen as accountably missing when not used. Speakers usually do subsequent reference with either "she" or "he," and there is no unmarked, ungendered option for subsequent reference to an individual in English. This paper examines the use and suppression of pronouns in references to persons with non-binary genders, specifically in this case, drag queens .
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Sponsored by the IHCís Language, Interaction and Social Organization Research Focus Group (LISO)
