Intersecting identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh

Morris, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3463-5277 and Parker, Samuel 2025. Intersecting identities in minority-language contexts: LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh. Walsh, John, Hornsby, Michael, Daussa, Eva J., PeraRos, Renee, Parker, Samuel, Morris, Jonathan and Cashman, Holly R., eds. Queering Language Revitalisation Navigating Identity and Inclusion among Queer Speakers of Minority Languages, Cambridge Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, online. (10.1017/9781009591034)

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Abstract

In critical sociolinguistics, sociology, and social psychology, thematic and discursive approaches to data analysis have contributed to our understanding of the experiences of LGBTQ+ people and how they construct their identity (e.g. Katsiveli-Siachou, Reference Katsiveli-Siachou2021; Surace et al., Reference Surace, Kang, Kahler and Operario2022; Santos, Reference Santos2023 and chapters therein). Relatively little is known, however, about the intersection between cultural/linguistic identities and other minority gender and sexual identities (Walsh, Reference Walsh2019). Specifically, the focus has been on how LGBTQ+ speakers express their identity through language rather than on the extent to which individuals combine a specific linguistic/cultural identity with their LGBTQ+ identity. The significance of this intersection comes to the fore in the case of minority language bilingualism, where the minority language may be an important component of the speaker’s identity formation along with the idea that the speaker belongs to a wider community of minority language speakers. Furthermore, minority languages are often the subject of overt language planning measures in order to ensure their survival. In this context, the extent to which speakers who identify as LGBTQ+ (as well other minority groups) feel able to express themselves fully and be accepted within the minority language community might have direct repercussions for the vitality of that community (cf. Hornsby and Vigers, Reference Hornsby and Vigers2018). In this section, we aim to address the gap in the previous research by investigating the experiences of LGBTQ+ speakers of the Welsh language in Wales. Specifically, we aim to ascertain how LGBTQ+ speakers of Welsh view their Welsh-speaking and their LGBTQ+ identities, and the extent to which these identities are seen to intersect.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Welsh
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages > PB1001 Celtic languages and literature
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	9781009591034
Last Modified:	10 Jan 2025 11:03
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166301

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