Dr Lucy Jones
Senior Lecturer in English Language
I joined the Department of English and History as a Senior Lecturer in English Language in January 2009. Before coming to Edge Hill, I taught as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Leeds, Sheffield Hallam University and Nottingham Trent University, and tutored at the University of Sheffield whilst studying for both my MA and PhD in the Department of English Language and Linguistics. My primary research interest is the connection between language and sexuality, taking a Sociocultural Linguistics approach. My early research focused on language change within the British gay community, investigating the presence of a specifically gay lexicon, whilst my current work concerns the interactive construction of identity in a lesbian community of practice. I am currently writing up this recent research as a book for Palgrave Macmillan. I am a member of the International Gender and Language Association and the Modern Humanities Research Association. I am also on the organising committee for the leading symposium on Language and Sexuality, the annual ‘Lavender Languages’ conference at American University in Washington, D.C. See website www1.american.edu/cas/anthro/lavenderlanguages/ for details. I also convene the North and Midlands Language and Gender reading group. All scholars with an interest in language and gender are welcomed. For more information about the group, please visit our website at https://sites.google.com/site/languagegendergroup/. I am currently organising the Eighth UK Language Variation and Change conference with Dr Lourdes Burbano-Elizondo and Dr Deborah Chirrey. Edge Hill will be hosting this conference in September 2011 (for more information please visit http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/events/2011/09/12/the-8th-uk-language-variation-and-change-conference-uklvc8).
Research
My research areas include Sociocultural Linguistics, Discourse analysis, Ethnography, Language and Gender and Language and Sexual Identity.
Recent Conference Papers and Other Talks
- 18 September 2010 ‘I’m a real girl!’ The negotiation of binary gender and the construction of (in)authenticity in a lesbian community of practice. Paper presented at the Sixth International Gender and Language Association Conference, Tsuda College Tokyo
- 3 September 2010 “I’m too young to be a feminist”: Varying identifica tion with the label ‘feminist’ in a lesbian community of practice. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, University of Southampton
- 11 September 2009: Using ethnography in a non-institutional community of practice. Paper presented at Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication, Aston University
- 21 August 2009: “She’s the only dykey one”: intersubjective constructions of authentic identity in a lesbian community of practice. Paper presented at Dialogic Language Use 2, University of Helsinki
- 27 February 2009: Constructing lesbian authenticity: A sociocultural linguistics approach to queer identity. Paper presented at Queering Disciplines, Canterbury Christ Church University
- 14 February 2009: “I’m such a girl!” The reworking of binary gender and the construction of (in)authenticity in a lesbian community of practice. Paper presented at Lavender Languages 16, American University
- 3 April 2008: Language and identity in a lesbian group: a sociocultural linguistics approach. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 18 January 2008: Authenticity and (homo)normativity in a lesbian community of practice. Invited speaker at the Language, Interaction and Social Organisation research group (LISO), University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications
- Jones, Lucy (under review) ‘The Only Dykey One: Constructions of (in)authenticity in a lesbian community of practice’ Journal of Homosexuality
- Jones, Lucy (under contract) Dyke/girl: Language and identities in a lesbian group Palgrave Macmillan
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Teaching
I teach on a range of first year Language modules, including introductory grammar, and am module leader for the module LNG1005 Introduction to Language. I also convene LNG2101 Introduction to Sociolinguistic Variation and LNG3101 Language and Gender.