Stephen Turton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen Turton is involved.
Articles
2025 The afterlives of Margaret Rany: Tracing the trial of an intersex person in early modern Scotland Journal of Language and Sexuality 14:2, pp. 178–199 | Article
In 1653, Margaret Rany was indicted before a court in Edinburgh for having sexual intercourse with a horse. It was unusual for a woman to be charged with bestiality, but what made the case more unusual was that a forced examination of Rany’s body caused widespread debate over the nature of… read more
2020 Redefining realness: Bringing queer performativity to the English dictionary Journal of Language and Sexuality 9:2, pp. 101–126 | Article
This paper furthers the goal of “queering lexicography” (Nossem 2018) by proposing a theoretical approach to analysing dictionary definitions that replaces the traditional descriptive/prescriptive binary with a model of normativity influenced by performativity theory. This is demonstrated by a… read more