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The use of language in the construction and expression of non-binary gender identities in the Czech Queer community

The use of language in the construction and expression of non-binary gender identities in the Czech Queer community

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[PA] General Semiotics: Blending Structuralism and Pragmatism (Jamin Pelkey, Tyler James Bennett, Ľudmila Bennett)
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Speaker:
Miriama Holická
Palacký University
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By approaching gender as a sociohistorical construct that is socially and institutionally enforced within a gradually shifting binary framework, its expression can exist as a spectrum able to be studied both semiotically and linguistically. In highly grammatically gendered languages (such as Slavic languages), the entwinement of gender and language is ever-present. In Czech, grammatical gendering permeates all parts of speech, imposing limitations even upon first-person expression, and nonbinary speakers employ varying strategies to cope with the limitations of linguistic gender expression within it. Some of these include elements of plurality, or intentionally offsetting one’s social positionality. The interaction of physical expression and language expression is also notable, as are attempts at understanding and translating one's own identity across multiple languages in bilingual speakers. In this age of great societal shifts, these largely individualized approaches warrant deeper understanding in hopes of advancing the social visibility of nonbinary people and their means of linguistic self-actualization. Using the theory of speech acts and the concept of the performative (and the view of gender as a continuous string of performative acts, as argued in Judith's Butler theory of gender performativity), along with the theories of markedness and oppositional relations within structuralism in relation to the apparent paradox of constructing a non-binary expression within the binary framework of a gendered language and existence within society, I explore the challenges that arise from the intersections of non-linguistic gender expression and the confines of a language that historically enshrines the hierarchical gender binary within itself.

Location:
2.158 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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