„Pedał” i „lesba” jako społeczne pojęcia życia codziennego. Heteroseksualne uprzedzenia językowe dotyczące gejów i lesbijek

• Authors: Bieńko Mariola

Title variants

EN

“Faggot” and “Dyke” as Everyday Life Social Concepts: Heterosexual Bias in Language Concerning Lesbians and Gay Men

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The past two decades have witnessed a modest increase in publications dealing with language used to describe sexual minorities (Kulick 2000). The aim of this paper is to present qualitative study results based on individual interviews conducted in 2018. The responses of 39 heterosexual women and men, aged 13-75 and living in Warsaw, Poland, were analysed with the purpose of exploring the variety of meanings and forms of language concerning homosexuality. The research shows that the linguistic representations of lesbians and gay men within heterosexual speech acts are situated between euphemisms and unrefined colloquial terms which function as degrading labels that tend to be applied in various contexts. The words known and used within the study group differ depending on the participants’ age and gender. However, it should be noted that the purpose of this study was not to investigate heterosexuals as a discrete community of language-users. Rather, its justification is conceptual and has to do with the way in which we understand the place of gendered and sexual non-heteronormativity in the ever-changing social landscape. In this context, a set of discourses and practices is a site through which the expressions of gender difference, power, and subjectivity are articulated, and one that, by extension, further influences our linguistic behaviours.

Keywords

PL

„pedał”; „lesba”; językowe kody heteroseksualności

EN

“faggot”; “dyke”; linguistic codes of homosexuality

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Instytut Studiów Iberyjskich i Iberoamerykańskich
• Journal: InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 14
• Pages: 86-102

Contributors

author

Bieńko Mariola

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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