PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
Queer Correctives: Discursive neo-homophobia, sexuality, and Christianity in Singapore. (Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, Advances in Sociolinguistics book series; expected summer 2025)
articles
Pak, Vincent and Hiramoto, Mie (2023). Sticky Raciolinguistics. Signs and Society 11(1), 45-67. https://doi.org/10.1086/722622
Pak, Vincent (2023). Lighting, signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot’s counterpublic discourse in Singapore. Journal of Sociolinguistics 27(1), 24–41. https://doi.org/ 10.1111/josl.12568
Pak, Vincent (2023). (De)coupling race and language: The state listening subject and its rearticulation of antiracism as racism in Singapore. Language in Society 52(1), 151-172. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404521000373
Starr, Rebecca Lurie, Go, Christian and Pak, Vincent (2022). ‘Keep calm, stay safe, and drink bubble tea’: Commodifying the crisis of Covid-19 in Singapore advertising. Language in Society 51(2), 333-359. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404521000567
Pak, Vincent and Hiramoto, Mie (2022). “Itching to make an impact”: Constructing the mobile Singaporean voluntourist in Instagram travel narratives. Social Semiotics 32(3), 332-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2020.1766263
Pak, Vincent (2021). Coming out ‘softly’: Metapragmatic reflections of gay men in illiberal pragmatic Singapore. Gender & Language 15(3), 301-323. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.20008
Pak, Vincent and Hiramoto, Mie (2021). For family, for friends, for (true) love: Negotiating discourses of love within the LGBTQ community in Singapore. Journal of Language & Sexuality 10(2), 105–128. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20009.hir 2021
Pak, Vincent (forthcoming). Language, gender and sexuality in 2023: Writing from the thorny place. Gender & Language.
Pak, Vincent (forthcoming). Bundling multiracialism, Ontologising racism: State media reflections and deflections. Journal of Asian Studies.
book chapters
Pak, Vincent and Hiramoto, Mie (forthcoming). Declassifying the racialised inhabitant: Stories from ‘Other’ women. In Wu Mingdan, Sibo Rugwiza Kanobana, and Jaspal Singh (eds.), Subverting Space and Race: Towards a Geopolitically Conscious and Antiracist Epistemology in the Sociology of Language. Mouton de Gruyter.
Hiramoto, Mie and Pak, Vincent (forthcoming). Mediatization of misogyny: female impersonation characters in Singapore’s public announcements. In Chen Li-Chi and Lu Wei-lun (eds.), Signs of Conflict: Multimodal Dimensions. John Benjamins.
Pak, Vincent (forthcoming). Inflammatory semiotics. In Kira Hall, Rodrigo Borba, and Mie Hiramoto (eds.), Language, Gender, and Sexuality: An Anticipatory Retrospective. Equinox Publishing.
Go, Christian, Hiramoto, Mie, and Pak, Vincent (in preparation). Gender variation in linguistic landscapes. In Quentin Williams, Amiena Peck, and David Malinowski (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes. Oxford University Press.
reviews
2021: Pak, Vincent. “Scott F. Kiesling (2019). Language, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 188pp.” Gender & Language. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.19531
2021: Pak, Vincent. “Robert Phillips. 2020. Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.” Journal of Language and Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00020.pa
2020: Pak, Vincent. “Heiko Motschenbacher, Language, Normativity and Europeanisation: Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 369. Hb. £74.99.” Language in Society 49 (1), 162-163. doi:10.1017/ S0047404519000927
