Performative Discourse of Drag Queens: A Sociolinguistic Study

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.18.1.02

M. Szymańska

引用次数: 1

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of two speeches given by Rory O’Neill, also known as Panti Bliss, who is so far the most recognisable Irish drag queen. Apart from being a drag queen, Rory O’Neill is also a political activist whose performances were part of the campaign before the referendum concerning the 34th Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the analysis both these aspects of the speaker’s identity are taken into consideration. Although the analysis is mostly linguistic, it also considers extralinguistic aspects of communication, e.g. the performer’s appearance on stage, as contextual elements are essential in sociolinguistic contexts. Thus, the analysis draws from the theoretical background focused on political discourse and the language used by drag queens to a detailed account of the two speeches in order discuss them in relation to the standards of both a drag performance and a

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变装皇后表演语篇的社会语言学研究

这篇文章分析了罗里·奥尼尔（Rory O'Neill）的两次演讲，他也被称为潘蒂·布利斯（Panti Bliss），是迄今为止最知名的爱尔兰变装皇后。除了是一名变装皇后，罗里·奥尼尔还是一名政治活动家，他的表演是爱尔兰宪法第34修正案公投前竞选活动的一部分。在分析中，说话者身份的这两个方面都被考虑在内。尽管分析主要是语言学的，但它也考虑了交际的语言外方面，例如表演者在舞台上的表现，因为语境元素在社会语言学语境中是必不可少的。因此，分析从关注政治话语和变装皇后使用的语言的理论背景出发，详细描述了这两次演讲，以便从变装表演和变装表演的标准来讨论它们

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.