Welcome to this very special issue of the IGALA blog – the graduate student issue!
Having been the Graduate Student Representative on the IGALA advisory board for the past few years, and as a recent graduate student...
Investigating the representation of transgender people in the British press
In 2015, when I first began researching for my Ph.D., I was struck by the power of media discourses to quickly change and strongly impact...
Exploring Normative Regulations of Sexual Intrusive Thoughts via (Virtual) Ethnographic Approaches a
My PhD research lies at the intersection of sociolinguistics (esp. queer linguistics) and health communication. More specifically, I use...
The interrelation of sexual and national identity construction in talk: Greek homosexuality
Greek national identity has been for centuries bonded with Orthodoxy, which explicitly recognizes two genders and one sexual identity...
Helping Faith Communities Talk Better about Sex
About a year ago, I was slogging through dissertation writing when I came upon a call for applications for a program run through my...
‘Genderlect’ in a spectrum: Language used by non-binary people, women, and men participating in a co
Within sociolinguistics, gender has long been considered distinct from biological sex; Postmodernist sociolinguists view it as a...
Breaking the binary with pronouns
My PhD project concentrates on 3rd person singular pronouns from a sociolinguistic gender perspective. For this blog post, I want to...
