A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
"Like little Helsinki girls in the backseat of a tram"
Authors: Lindeman Meri
Publisher: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Publishing place: AMSTERDAM
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Journal of language and sexuality
Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SEXUALITY
Journal acronym: J LANG SEX
Volume: 13
Issue: 1
First page : 98
Last page: 123
Number of pages: 26
ISSN: 2211-3770
eISSN: 2211-3789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00032.lin
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00032.lin
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/386999204
This article explores the conceptions and attitudes that non-linguists have towards Finnish spoken by gay men. Combining folk linguistics and feminist theories, the study utilises interview and survey data for content analysis. The study finds that the main characteristics of speech viewed as "gay" - e.g. high pitch, atypical intonation patterns, nasality, non-canonical /s/ quality, use of affective adjectives - align with the speech stereotypes associated with girls and young women. The article suggests that, even though the attitudes explicitly communicated by the participants are mostly neutral, the language features associated with gay men show a strong relation to extra-linguistic gay stereotypes.
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