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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Sociology
  • Digital Humanities

Background:

  • The term "queer" is undergoing semantic evolution, leading to debates in linguistics, identity studies, and social discourse.
  • It is part of a "reclamation project" where stigmatized terms are revalued, especially in academic and activist contexts.
  • The meaning of "queer" remains fluid and contested.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the semantic shifts of the term "queer" through historical and contemporary usage.
  • To investigate the reappropriation and evolving sociopolitical meanings of "queer" in language.
  • To apply critical discourse analysis and natural language processing (NLP) to corpus data.

Main Methods:

  • Corpus-based case study utilizing three distinct corpora: English Historical Book Collection, British National Corpus (2014), and English Broadsheet Newspaper (SiBol).
  • Application of critical discourse analysis and queer theory.
  • Analysis of linguistic data using natural language processing (NLP) software.

Main Results:

  • The term "queer" tends to retain pejorative associations when used as a noun.
  • Analysis reveals insights into the linguistic landscape of "queer" usage.
  • The study highlights the contested nature of the term's meaning and application.

Conclusions:

  • The term "queer" continues to evolve as a site of contestation and resistance in language, identity, and power dynamics.
  • Findings contribute to discussions on the sociolinguistics of identity and marginalized terminology.
  • Future research requires larger, more diverse datasets to capture global complexities of "queer" usage.