Beschreibung:
This important book examines how non-binary people discover, adopt, and negotiate language in a variety of social settings. It considers how language, in the form of gender-neutral pronouns, names, and labels, is a central aspect of identity for many and has been a subject of much debate recently.
1. Becoming Non-binary: Language and Identity 2. Gender and Linguistic Becomings: Beyond Positivism and Social Constructionism 3. Materialist Methods: The Research-assemblage 4. Gender and Linguistic Becomings: Affective Intensities 5. Language-related Distress: Proximities and Intentions 6. The Non-binary Corpus: A Network of Linguistic and Material Intensities 7. Non-binary Assemblage: Becoming Something Else