In this special issue, the authors examine how place, region, and community shape contemporary dialectology. Contributors draw on the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and other categories of identity to more fully examine the concept of regionality, the linguistic differences associated with particular geographic locations. The authors demonstrate how queer and trans people linguistically negotiate and attend to different locations and contexts using examples such as the intersectional identity construction of Oklahoma City Drag Queens; the influence of English in new designations...
In this special issue, the authors examine how place, region, and community shape contemporary dialectology. Contributors draw on the complex intersec...