Queer Correctives [offers] a timely and significant contribution to linguistic anthropological conversations on heteronormativity and neo-homophobia.

Linguistic Anthropology

What if belonging requires suppressing a part of yourself? In this powerful work, Pak explores how queer Christians in Singapore navigate this dilemma and offers an incisive analysis of the role of language in their spiritual transformation, showing us why confronting subtle forms of homophobia is more urgent than ever.

Andrew Wong, California State University, East Bay, USA

This compelling sociolinguistic examination of neo-homophobia in Singapore expertly traverses an array of linguistic, ethical, and methodological questions to expose how harm can be (and routinely is) enacted upon queer people, firmly establishing Vincent Pak as one of the most important scholars working in the field of queer linguistics today.

Dr Benedict J.L. Rowlett, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Queer Correctives by Vincent Pak is mesmerising, poetic, and insightful. Pak weaves his own positionality into a rigorous examination of discursive neo-homophobia in Singapore, making glaringly clear “the enormous power of language to hurt and harm” (to use Pak's own words). Queer Correctives is a must read for sociolinguists and gender and sexuality scholars alike.

Dr Shelley Dawson, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand