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Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity

Liang, A C·1999·Reinventing Identities
DOI 10.1093/oso/9780195126297.003.0016
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An anecdote While S and her parents were sitting around the kitchen table, her mother reported that in a recent telephone conversation, S’s aunt had asked when S was going to get married. S’s mother said she had explained that S just hadn’t found the right person yet, to which her aunt had replied that not being married was easier anyway. In response to this story, S’s father remarked that if S found the right person, she didn’t have to rule out marriage. This conversation continued despite the fact that S, who, unbeknownst to her parents, is lesbian, said nothing to indicate her agreement or disagreement. In the absence of S’s protestations, S’s parents could retain their as sumptions regarding how a woman is defined in American culture. Had S elected to express her real feelings-for instance, if she had announced her intention to live with a woman or said that her definition of marriage was quite different from theirs she might have, minimally, aroused her parents’ embarrassment, or she might even have been thrown out of the house. But she chose not to speak, and they could define her sexual identity without feeling contradicted.

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  • Lesbians and gay men who fear reprisal for openly displaying their sexual identity may use implicatures, such as gender-neutral references to lovers, to convey this information to savvy listeners while excluding possibly hostile outgroup members.

    “lesbians and gay men who fear reprisal for openly displaying their sexual identity may use implicatures (such as gender-neutral references to lovers) to convey this information to savvy listeners while excluding possibly hostile outgroup members.”

    From Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach (2005) · cites this paper as Liang (1999)

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Authors
Liang, A. C.
Corresponding author
Liang, A C
Venue
Reinventing Identities
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
Published
1999-09-02
Pages
293-310
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780195126297.003.0016
OpenAlex
W4388116892
Cited by
21
References
0
Citations by year
2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
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0.00
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
Keywords
lesbian identity, gay identity, conversational implicature, coming out, gender norms, marriage, family communication, American culture

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