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  • Twitter discourse on LGBTQ+ in Slovenia
    Gorjanc, Vojko ; Fišer, Darja, 1978-
    Since Twitter, as one of the main social networking platforms, plays an im-portant part in forming gender and sexual identities, the aim of this study was to perform a corpus analysis of Twitter ... discourse pertaining to the LGBTQ+ community in Slovenia. The dataset for our study was extracted from the Janes corpus of Slovenian user-generated content, which contains almost 215 million tokens from Slovenian blog posts, forum messages, news comments, tweets, etc., and is richly annotated with socio-demographic and linguistic metadata. Our analysis is mainly qualitative and based on content analysis, followed by a critical discourse analysis examining how much control one social group imposes over another and tries to limit the freedom of other people's actions, using the concepts of "normal" and "natural" as key aspects in forming gender and sexual identities. The results of the analysis show the persistence of heteronormativity; so much so that it becomes naturalized, whereas any counterforce is seen as disruptive.
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2020
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 71582050