Queerly phrased: language, gender, and sexuality
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1997
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Contributors; INTRODUCTION; "It's a Girl!": Bringing Performativity Back to Linguistics; I: LIMINAL LEXICALITY; 1. Two Lavender Issues for Linguists; 2. The Elusive Bisexual: Social Categorization and Lexico-Semantic Change; 3. Lexical Variation in the Deaf Community Relating to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs; 4. The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; 5. Pots and Pans: Identification of Queer Japanese in Terms of Discrimination; 6. Talking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech
This text examines the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. The contributors draw on traditional models of language analyses as well as developments in queer theory to show how language plays a crucial role in the creation of culture and its representation
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 460 p.)
ISBN:0195104706
1423759206
1602561206
9780195104707
9781423759201
9781602561205

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