monograph
Pak, Vincent. 2025. Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality, and Christianity in Singapore. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
journal articles
Pak, Vincent. 2026. Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralisation in ex-gay stories. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 36(1), e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.70044 [Open Access]
Pak, Vincent. 2025. Language, gender and sexuality in 2023: Writing from the Thorny Place. Gender & Language 19(1), 104-123. https://doi.org/10.3138/gl-2025-1005
Pak, Vincent and Hiramoto, Mie. 2023. Sticky Raciolinguistics. Signs and Society 11(1), 45-67. https://doi.org/10.1086/722622 [Open Access]
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 [Open Access]
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 [Open Access] [Featured in TIME]
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/S004740452100056
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
Pak, Vincent. Accepted. 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. De Gruyter Brill.
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. Under review. Gender variation in linguistic landscapes. In Quentin Williams, Amiena Peck, and David Malinowski (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes. Oxford University Press.
Hiramoto, Mie and Pak, Vincent. Under review. Linguistic constructions of gender in pop cultural media. In Valentin Werner, Andrew Moody, and Cecelia Cutler (eds.), The Handbook of Language and Pop Culture. Mouton de Gruyter.
dialogues and commentaries
Pak, Vincent. Forthcoming. “Ungrammatical selves”. Journal of Sociolinguistics.
Pak, Vincent (2025). “What we do with the meanings we make”. Journal of Sociolinguistics 29(5), 363-366. http://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12718 [Open access]
book reviews/notes
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 10(2), 211—215. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00020.pak
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
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
blog posts
The NUS Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster’s Gender and the Covid-19 pandemic workshop (IGALA blog and GSRC blog)
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