Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and indexes.
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The language of homosexuality: an American glossary (1941) / Gershon Legman -- Take my word for it (1951) / Donald W. Cory -- The homosexual's language (1969) / David Sonenschein -- When we say 'out of the closets!' (1974) / Julia Penelope Stanley -- Honey, let's talk about the queens' English (1978) / Louie Crew -- Gayspeak (1981) / Joseph J. Hayes -- 'Gayspeak': a response (1981) / James Darsey -- Can there be gay discourse without gay language? (1999) / William L. Leap -- Dating advertisements: discourses of the commodified self (1996) / Justine Coupland -- Playing the straight man: displaying and maintaining male heterosexulity in discourse (2002) / Scott F. Kiesling -- Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo (2004) / Hideko Abe -- Sharing resources and indexing meanings in the production of gay styles (2002) / Robert J. Podesva, Sarah J. Roberts and Kathryn Campbell-Kibler -- Supermodels of the world, unite! Political economy and the language of performance among Aftrican American drag queens (1995) / Rusty Barrett -- 'Speaking as a heterosexual': (how) does sexuality matter for talk-in-interaction? (2005) / Celia Kitzinger -- Vowels and nail polish: the emergence of linguistic style in the preadolescent heterosexual marketplace (1996) / Penelope Eckert -- The discursive reconstruction of sexual consent (1998) / Susan Ehrlich -- Degrees of consent: the Antioch College sexual offense policy (1994) / Deborah Cameron -- Would you say you 'had sex' if ...? (1999) / Stephanie A. Sanders and June Machover Reinisch -- Why defining is seldom 'just semantics': marriage and Marriage (2006) / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- 'I went to bed with my own kind once': the erasure of desire in the name of identity (2003) / David Valentine -- Writing desire in Nepali love letters (2003) / Laura M. Ahearn -- Creating indexicality: schoolgirl speech in Meiji Japan (2006) / Momoko Nakamura -- No (2003)/ Don Kulick.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Brings together material from the fields of anthropology, communication studies, linguistics, medicine and psychology in an examination of the role of sexuality in written and spoken language. Organized into thematic sections, this book addresses the use of language by individuals to present themselves as sexual and gendered subjects.
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00081154
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Title
Language and sexuality reader.
International Standard Book Number
9780415363075
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Gays-- Language.
Language and languages-- Sex differences.
Language and sex.
Lesbians-- Language.
Sociolinguistics.
Gays-- Language.
Language and languages-- Sex differences.
Language and sex.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Sociolinguistics.