Updating the OED on the Historical LGBTQ Lexicon

Abstract

ABSTRACT:Despite rigorously researched updates to many OED entries pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity, much work remains to be done in these highly pragmatically marked fields long neglected by professional lexicographers. The data-driven analysis presented here is meant to offer lessons for lexicology, metalexicography, and queer studies, especially in a cross-linguistic onomasiological perspective. Concrete corrections, clarifications, antedatings, and additions are proposed to the historical LGBTQ lexicon as treated in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), with a nomenclature covering the entire period of Modern English.