Homosexuality in Latvian and Polish parliamentary debates 1994–2013

Chojnicka, Joanna 2019. Homosexuality in Latvian and Polish parliamentary debates 1994–2013. Evans, Matthew, Jeffries, Lesley and O'Driscoll, Jim, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict, Routledge, pp. 103-127. (10.4324/9780429058011-7)

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Abstract

This chapter discusses a historical perspective on the development of discursive conflict around homosexuality, with the amount of data to be handled remaining within the margin of manageability. It describes the ongoing academic debate on issues as conflict in political discourse, homosexuality as a topic of political debate – especially in Central and Eastern Europe – or the use of insults in spoken discourse. The chapter explains a narrative of homosexuality as both a subject of conflict and a means employed in conflict in Latvian and Polish parliamentary debates over a period of 20 years. Transitional terms of Latvian and Polish parliaments – the Supreme Council 1990–1993 and the first democratic Sejm 1991–1993, respectively – were hardly concerned with homosexuality. In official discourses of the Soviet Union – that Latvia was part of – and socialist Poland prior to democratic transition, sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular were taboo topics.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780429058011
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 04:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145042

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