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Biography

BA, MA, PhD (Sheffield); PGCHE (Edge Hill); FHEA

I work in the area of language, gender and sexuality (or queer linguistics) within the broader field of sociolinguistics. My research makes use of critical discourse analysis and sociocultural linguistics alongside feminist and queer theory. In most of my research, I've used linguistic ethnography to explore identity construction in communities of practice, including an older lesbian group and LGBTQ+ youth groups, and I recently published the monograph Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional Lens (Bloomsbury, 2026).

As part of my work with LGBTQ+ youth, and in collaboration with them, I have developed several public engagement and policy impact projects. The most recent example of this is Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language, a glossary of words chosen and defined by young people to reflect the way they talk about their lives and identities. We also co-created the LGBT+ Youth Manifesto (a social media campaign sharing their vision of a more inclusive society) and a briefing paper for policy-makers. The briefing paper makes a series of recommendations for best practice regarding the support of young LGBTQ+ people; watch a short video summarising these recommendations or read the policy brief here.

Published research that I have produced in collaboration with colleagues includes critical discourse analysis of how same-sex marriage, HIV prevention, and trans inclusion in sports are represented in the mainstream media, of Twitter discourse around the hashtag #NotAllMen, and into the naming choices of people who get married. I've also analysed identity construction in transgender YouTube video diaries, as well as narratives produced by patients at a transgender health clinic.

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Expertise Summary

I am currently President of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), having previously served on the committee from 2015-2021. I was elected to the BAAL Special Interest Group on Language, Gender and Sexuality board in 2013 and served on the committee until 2021. I am on the Organising Committee for the annual conference on Language and Sexuality (Lavender Languages and Linguistics), and hosted this at Nottingham in April 2017. I am also a member of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum, and the British Association of Applied Linguistics. I am co-Editor of the book series, with William Leap and Rodrigo Borba. I was an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Language and Sexuality from 2013-18, and the journal's Editor for Book Reviews from 2018-2023. I served on the Editorial Board for the journal Gender and Language between 2017-2020, and have been a member of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Language and Discrimination since 2016. I also chair the North and Midlands Language, Gender and Sexuality Reading Group. I have been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2012.

Teaching Summary

Undergraduate modules

Language in Society

Language and Feminism

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Postgraduate modules

Language, Gender and Sexuality

Selected Publications

• JONES, LUCY, 2021. Journal of Language and Sexuality. 10(1), 14-25
• JONES, LUCY and COLLINS, LUKE, 2020. Journal of Language and Sexuality. 9(2), 201-224
• JONES, LUCY, 2020. Journal of Language and Discrimination. 4(2), 149鈥�171
• JONES, LUCY, 2019. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 256(2), 85-101

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I welcome research proposals from prospective postgraduate students with an interest in the relationships between language and identity, both in terms of interaction and representation, and particularly in relation to gender and/or sexuality; discourse analysis, including ethnographic approaches and those making use of critical discourse analysis; feminist and queer linguistics; media discourse.

Previous and current PhD students who I've supervised have worked on projects including: the representation of queer women in an online corpus; cross-cultural multi-modal critical discourse analysis of advertisements in British and Arabic women's magazines; discourses of teenage abortion; immigration discourse in the UK Government; identity and language in an online asexuality forum; taboo language and homophobia; discourse and identity in the House of Lords.

• LUCY JONES, 2026. Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional Lens Bloomsbury.
• SARAH ATKINS, JAI MACKENZIE and LUCY JONES, 2025. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences. 63(2), 377-406
• LUCY JONES, 2025. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 29(1), 3-21
• LUCY JONES, 2024. Journal of Gender Studies. 34(1), 93-95
• LUCY JONES, 2023. Gender and Language. 17(2), 1-18
• AIMEE BAILEY and LUCY JONES, 2023. 鈥楩airness versus inclusion鈥�: Representations of transgender athletes in British newspaper reports. In: KIERAN FILE and STEPHANIE SCHNURR, eds., The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sport De Gruyter. 193-214
• ANGELA ZOTTOLA, LUCY JONES, LOUISE MULLANY and ALISON PILNICK, 2023. 鈥淚 got confused when they said 鈥榶ou鈥檙e a girl鈥欌��: Trans men鈥檚 life histories and the regulation of gender. In: GAVIN BROOKES and MA艁GORZATA CHA艁UPNIK, eds., Masculinities and Discourses of Men鈥檚 Health Palgrave Macmillan. 249-271
• JONES, L., CHA艁UPNIK, M., MACKENZIE, J. and MULLANY, L., 2022. Discourse, Context & Media. 47, 100596
• LUCY JONES, 2022. Language in Society. First View,
• JONES, LUCY, 2021. Journal of Language and Sexuality. 10(1), 14-25
• ZOTTOLA, ANGELA, JONES, LUCY, PILNICK, ALISON, MULLANY, LOUISE, BOUMAN, WALTER P. and ARCELUS, JON, 2021. Health Expectations. (In Press.)
• JONES, LUCY and COLLINS, LUKE, 2020. Journal of Language and Sexuality. 9(2), 201-224
• JONES, LUCY, 2020. Journal of Language and Discrimination. 4(2), 149鈥�171
• JONES, LUCY, 2019. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 256(2), 85-101
• LUCY JONES, 2019. Sexualities. 23(4), 497-515
• JONES, LUCY, 2018. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 22(1), 55-76
• JONES, LUCY, 2018. Lesbian Identity Construction. In: HALL, KIRA and BARRETT, RUSTY, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality Online First. Oxford University Press.
• JONES, LUCY, MILLS, SARA, PATERSON, LAURA L, TURNER, GEORGINA and COFFEY-GLOVER, LAURA, 2017. Gender and Language. 11(3),
• TURNER, GEORGINA, MILLS, SARA, VAN DER BOM, ISABELLE, COFFEY-GLOVER, LAURA, PATERSON, LAURA L and JONES, LUCY, 2017. Discourse & Society. 29(2),
• JONES, LUCY, 2016. . In: SIAN PREECE, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity. Routledge. 210-224
• JONES, LUCY, 2016. Review: David Evans 鈥楲anguage and Identity: Discourse in the World鈥� Discourse & Society. 27(4),
• JONES, LUCY, 2016. Language in Society. 45(1), 113-133
• VAN DER BOM, ISABELLE, COFFEY-GLOVER, LAURA, JONES, LUCY, MILLS, SARA and PATERSON, LAURA L, 2015. Journal of Language and Sexuality. 4(1), 102-137
• JONES, LUCY, 2015. . In: MILANI, TOMMASO, ed., Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations Routledge. 174-196
• JONES, LUCY, 2014. Journal of Language and Sexuality. 3(2), 161-190
• JONES, LUCY and MILLS, SARA, 2014. Gender and Language. 8(2), 225-244
• JONES, L, 2012. Palgrave Macmillan.
• JONES, LUCY, 2011. Journal of Homosexuality. 58(6-7), 719-741
• JONES, LUCY, 2007. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 11(1), 94-98
• JONES, LUCY, 2006. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 10(4), 560-564