Sauntson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0373-1242 (2025) Anti-LGB Language. In: The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice. Oxford University Press, pp. 57-76

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview and critical discussion of research on discriminatory language based on sexual orientation. It traces the historical development of research from a narrow focus on homophobic slurs to more extensive examinations of the diverse ways in which homophobia, lesbophobia, and biphobia, as forms of anti-gay, lesbian, and bisexual prejudice, are enacted through language. This includes an examination of how anti-LGB prejudice can be achieved through linguistic silence and erasure. Some current areas of research are discussed: the relationship between anti-LGB language, hate speech, and violence; anti-LGB language issues affecting the Global South; research in schools; anti-LGB language and media; global anti-gender movements and their use of anti-LGB language. Key research methods used in the study of anti-LGB language are briefly introduced and future directions for work in the field are considered.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192869203.013.4
School/Department:	School of Education, Language and Psychology
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/13244

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