Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality
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This pioneering collection of previously unpublished articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender language combines queer theory and feminist theory with the latest thinking on language and gender. The book expands the field well beyond the study of "gay slang" to consider gay dialects (such as Polari in England), early modern discourse on gay practices, and late twentieth-century descriptions of homosexuality. These essays examine the conversational patterns of queer speakers in a wide variety of settings, from women's friendship groups to university rap groups and electronic mail postings.Taking a global—rather than regional—approach, the contributors herein study the language usage of sexually liminal communities in a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts, such as lesbian speakers of American Sign Language, Japanese gay male couples, Hindi-speaking hijras (eunuchs) in North India, Hausa-speaking 'yan daudu (feminine men) in Nigeria, and French and Yiddish gay groups. The most accessible and diverse collection of its kind, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality sets a new standard in the study of language's impact on the construction of sexuality. Library Journal This compilation of research on the peculiar use of language in gay and lesbian communities breaks new ground. The first of three parts, "Liminal Lexicality," documents lexical usage and variation in deaf, Jewish, Japanese, and other communities. "Queerspeak" looks at "computer-mediated text" (E-mail), homophobic slang, media reports, and literary language to conclude whether characteristics specific to gay and lesbian speech must be found exclusively in speech to label them as "gay." Finishing the volume, "Linguistic Gender-bending" examines the fluid nature of gender and sexuality and how that may be seen in the conscious use of language as it applies to hermaphrodites, the castrated hijras of India, Nigerian transvestites, Yoruba priests, Parisian gays, and Japanese same-sex couples. Of interest to sociologists, linguists, and gay studies professionals, this is recommended for academic collections and large comprehensive gay and lesbian public library collections.Kevin M. Roddy, Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo Lib.
ContributorsIntroduction: "It's a Girl": Bringing Performativity Back to Linguistics31Two Lavender Issues for Linguists212The Elusive Bisexual: Social Categorization and Lexico-Semantic Change353Lexical Variation in the Deaf Community Relating to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs584The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence855Pots and Pans: Identification of Queer Japanese in Terms of Discrimination956Talking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech1157Les Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Premodern France1278Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love: Tribade, Lesbienne, Homosexuelle1479Read my Lips: Clippyng and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century16710The "Homo-genius" Speech Community18111Toward the Study of Lesbian Speech20212Que(e)rying Friendship: Discourses of Resistance and the Construction of Gendered Subjectivity21413"I Don't Speak Spritch": Locating Lesbian Language23314Narrative Iconicity in Electronic-Mail Lesbian Coming-Out Stories25715Deaf Identity, Lesbian Identity: Intersections in a Life Narrative27416The Creation of Coherence in Coming-Out Stories28717Performative Effect in Three Gay English Texts31018Homophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse among College Students32619"Falling Short of God's Ideal": Public Discourse about Lesbians and Gays33520Disloyal to Masculinity: Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity in French34921Linguistic Gender Play among French Gays and Lesbians36922Surrogate Phonology and Transsexual Faggotry: A Linguistic Analogy for Uncoupling Sexual Orientation from Gender Identity38023The Gendering of the Gay Male Sex Class in Japan: A Case Study Based on Rasen No Sobyo40224Not Talking Straight in Hausa41625"Go Suck Your Husband's Sugarcane!": Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult430
