This paper explores the relation between the linguistic and the visual in indexing social meaning and performing gender, focusing on fronted /s/ among a community of drag queens in SoMa, San Francisco. I argue that as orders of indexicality (Silverstein 2003) are established, linguistic features like fronted /s/ become linked with visual bodies. These body‐language links can impose top‐down restrictions on the uptake of gender performances. Non‐normatively gendered individuals like the SoMa queens embody cross‐modal figures of personhood (see Agha 2003, 2004) like the fierce queen that forge higher indexical orders and widen the range of performative agency.

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从娘娘腔到病态：旧金山SoMa中/ s /的索引景观

本文探讨了在索引社会意义和表演性别时语言和视觉之间的关系，重点研究了旧金山SoMa的扮装皇后社区中正面/ s /的情况。我认为随着索引顺序的建立（Silverstein 2003），诸如/ s /前面的语言特征便与视觉身体联系在一起。这些肢体语言联系可以对采用性别表现施加自上而下的限制。诸如SoMa皇后之类的非规范性别个体体现了人格交叉模式的人格特征（参见Agha 2003，2004），像凶猛的皇后一样，伪造更高的索引顺序并扩大了表演代理的范围。