Discourse and Queer Sinophone Male Identities

A Western Immigrant Perspective

Phil Freestone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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English

Cambridge University Press
11 December 2025

Sociolinguistics; Semantics; Gay studies (Gay men); Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality

This Element analyses the sociolinguistic navigation of cultural and ideological influence among queer male-identified individuals in Chengdu and Taipei. By analysing how queer and ethnically Chinese-identified individuals navigate ideological influences, it investigates some of the complexities of culture and identity and their dependence on semiotics and situated communication. Thus, the social affordances and constraints relevant to specific individuals in these contexts are described not only in terms of influences like 'Chinese culture' or 'Western ideology', but also in terms of the ongoing communicative processes through which they orient themselves to diverse structural influences. As such, this Element engages with the diversity typically subsumed into common identity categories. In turn, through its qualified deconstructionist approach to identity, it sheds novel light on the ideological complexity that tends to underlie queer individuals' performance of 'who they are', in Sinophone contexts and elsewhere.

By: Phil Freestone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9781009578646
ISBN 10: 1009578642
Series: Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Sociopolitical influence in queer mainland China and Taiwan; 3. Theoretical and methodological frameworks: identity, discourse and positioning; 4. Language and queer sinophone identity work in Taipei and Chengdu; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusion; References.