RESEARCH + publications

More info on my current and past research, interests and academic background coming soon.

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Books

Comer, J. (2022) Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087960

This book was published Open Access and is available here.

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Journal articles

Comer, J. (2024) #HoldTight: Neoliberal affects, embodied hope and anticipatory chronotopes in LGBTQ diversity discourse. Language in Society 53(4): 731-754. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000593

Comer, J. (2024) 'For business it boils down to one thing': Affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse. Critical Discourse Studies 21(6): 684-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2255306

Comer, J. (2022) ‘Together, soon enough’: Melbourne’s affective-discursive landscape during and since lockdown. Linguistic Landscape 8(2-3): 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.21044.com

Comer, J. (2018) ‘Equality on the sea’: Interrogating LGBTQ privilege in the tourism discourse of Africa’s ‘gay capital’. Gender and Language 12(4): 479-503. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.33353

Please contact me for copies of any of my published articles or reviews.

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Reviews

Comer, J. (2024) Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan, by R. Armyatge (2020). Anthropological Notebooks 30(3): S1-S4.

Comer, J. (2024) Language and Neoliberal Governmentality, by L. Martín Rojo and A. Del Percio (2019). Language in Society. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404524000393

Comer, J. (2023) Book note: The Linguistics of Humor, by S. Attardo (2021). Language in Society 52(1): 174-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404522000744

Comer, J. (2019) The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, by O. García, N. Flores and M. Spotti (eds.) (2017). Journal of Sociolinguistics 23(5): 562-566. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12381

Comer, J. (2019) Book note: Political Economy and Sociolinguistics, by D. Block (2018). Language in Society 48(2): 315-317. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000046

Comer, J. (2019) Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality, by T. Milani (ed.) (2018). Journal of Language and Sexuality 8(2): 248-252. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00005.com

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Blog entries

Comer, J. (2021, August 10) Together, soon enough – Love, hope and the passage of time in Melbourne’s COVID landscape. The Linguistic Landscape of COVID-19.

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Other published media

My suburb might be boring, but walking the streets is an extreme sport. The Age, October 7, 2024.