Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice
Language and Sexuality explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the emerging field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a wide variety of cultural settings. The resulting volume combines the perspectives of the field's top scholars with exciting new research to present new ideas on the ways in which language use intersects with sexual identity.
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Language and Sexuality explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the emerging field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a wide variety of cultural settings. The resulting volume combines the perspectives of the field's top scholars with exciting new research to present new ideas on the ways in which language use intersects with sexual identity.
ContributorsAcknowledgments1Speaking of Sex1Pt. 1Contesting Meaning in Theory232Is Queer Theory Important for Sociolinguistic Theory?253Not Entirely in Support of a Queer Linguistics454Queer Linguistics?655A Matter of Interpretation: The 'Future' of 'Queer Linguistics'696The Future of Queer Linguistics877Demystifying Sexuality and Desire998Language, Sexuality and Political Economy111Pt. 2Contesting Meaning in Practice1359Queering Semantics: Definitional Struggles13710The Semantic Derogation of Tongzhi: A Synchronic Perspective16111Sharing Resources and Indexing Meanings in the Production of Gay Styles17512Camionneuses s'abstenir: Lesbian Community Creation Through the Personals19113Identity and Script Variation: Japanese Lesbian and Housewife Letters to the Editor20714Skirting Around: Towards an Understanding of HIV/AIDS Educational Materials in Modern Israeli Hebrew22515Playing the Straight Man: Displaying and Maintaining Male Heterosexuality in Discourse24916'Open Desire, Close the Body': Magic Spells, Desire and the Body Among the Petalangen Women in Indonesia267Index289
