Abstracts Archive

I consider here the impact of prevailing norms surrounding gender and sexuality on LGBTQ+ young people. I introduce a linguistic ethnography project with LGBTQ+ youth in England which uses a queer discourse analytic approach to examine how they construct their identities and to show what this reveal...

Since 1999, The Frye literary Festival is a bilingual celebration of the literary landscape with writers from all over Canada and beyond participating in literary events in Moncton, New Brunswick. This presentation examines a digital data corpus that focuses on the queer language practices observed ...

Drawing on Hong Kong's rather limited and homogeneous sexuality education background which tend to suppress "sensitive" and "controversial" topics (Wong, 2000; Ho and Tsang, 2002), this paper explores the potential challenges that social workers and transgender individuals have when having transgend...