Coming out with it: the relationship between language and emerging identity in young LGBT+ people

在不到一秒钟的时间里，我们的声音就会告诉听众很多关于我们自己的信息，比如我们的年龄、性别、教育程度，对某些人来说，甚至是我们的性取向。对于穿着整洁校服的青少年来说，语言是少数可用的资源之一，可以积极地呈现我们身份的各个方面，并使我们与其他身份和群体保持距离。虽然对语言和青少年的研究表明他们在语言的变化和进步中处于中心地位，但很少有研究考虑到这些年轻人与强加给他们的身份类别之间微妙而复杂的关系。随着不符合性别规范的LGBT+正面榜样越来越多的出现，以及媒体上不断出现的反LGBT+的反弹，通过语言来引导青少年的身份认同，为了解语言变化、身份认同和歧视的社会机制提供了宝贵的见解。该项目将调查伦敦各地中学生LGBT+“骄傲俱乐部”中年轻人的言论和语言，作为高中人种学研究的新站点，研究不同背景下更多（或更少）包容或宽容的新兴身份。多个站点的定性和定量方法的结合将创建一个数据体，用于分析语言的各个方面，如声音，但也成为调查性别，性和青少年方面的更广泛研究的资源。

Within fractions of a second, our voices tell listeners a lotabout ourselves, about our age, gender, level of education,and for some, even our sexuality. For teenagers in neatschool uniforms, language is one of the few resourcesavailable to actively present aspects of our identity anddistance ourselves from other identities and groups. Whileresearch into language and adolescents demonstrates theircentrality in changing and progressing language, much lessresearch considers the nuanced and complex relationshipsthese young people have with categories of identity thatare imposed on them. With the increased visibility ofpositive LGBT+ role models, who don't conform to gendernorms, alongside constant anti-LGBT+ backlash in themedia, the navigation of adolescent identity throughlanguage offers an invaluable insight into the socialmechanics of language change, identity and discrimination.This project will investigate the speech and language ofyoung in secondary school LGBT+ 'Pride clubs' acrossLondon, as an new site for high school ethnographicresearch in emerging identities across different contextsthat are more (or less) inclusive or tolerant. Thecombination of qualitative and quantitative methods acrossthe multiple sites will create a body of data for analysingaspects of language such as sound, but also become aresources for use in wider research investigating aspects ofgender, sexuality and adolescence.