Biography

Lucy Jones is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK. She is also a queer linguist, a discourse analyst, and a linguistic ethnographer. Her published research includes ethnographic studies with a community of practice of older lesbian women (including the 2012 book Dyke/Girl: Language and Identity in a Lesbian Group), an LGBT+ youth group, and a trans youth support group. She has published on these studies in journals including Language in Society, Sexualities, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Journal of Homosexuality, and Journal of Language and Sexuality. She is currently working on intersectional data emerging from her recent ethnographic fieldwork with four LGBT+ youth groups in socioeconomically and culturally variable locations in England. Other published projects include critical discourse analysis of same-sex marriage and HIV prevention in the mainstream media, the naming choices of people who get married, identity construction in transgender YouTube video diaries, and narratives produced by patients at a transgender health clinic. You can follow Lucy on Twitter @jones_lucy.