“Be Proud, and Loud”: Linguistic Markers of Pride in Drag Queens’ Spoken Discourse by Natacha Marjanovic

“…Basing our understanding of “pride” on the ternary distinction between arrogance, superiority, and dignity pride, we carried out an analysis of four linguistic markers of pride in a corpus taken from the reality TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race: the violent lexicon, the reappropriation of insults, the self-referential use of the third person, and deictics. …”
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