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Language, Sexualities and Desires

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Helen Sauntson

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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  2. Sakis Kyratzis

    1. Kingston University, UK

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Sexualities are perceived, constructed and represented in different ways in various languages and cultures. This volume addresses how people use various linguistic features to construct their sexual identities and relationships and how membership of specific social groups, based on sexual and lifestyle choices, may be signalled through language.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Language, Sexualities and Desires

    • Helen Sauntson, Sakis Kyratzis
    Pages 1-16

  3. Sex Talk: Language, Desire, Identity and Beyond

    • Liz Morrish, William Leap
    Pages 17-40

  4. ‘Everyone Was Convinced that We Were Closet Fags’: the Role of Heterosexuality in the Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity

    • Jennifer Coates
    Pages 41-67

  5. ‘This Sex Thing Is such a Big Issue now’: Sex Talk and Identities in Three Groups of Adolescent Girls

    • Pia Pichler
    Pages 68-95

  6. The Semantics of Desire: Exploring Desire, Love and Sexuality through Metaphor

    • Sakis Kyratzis
    Pages 96-117

  7. Queering Language: a Love that Dare not Speak its Name Comes Out of the Closet

    • Yvonne Dröschel
    Pages 118-139

  8. Education, Culture and the Construction of Sexual Identity: an appraisal Analysis of Lesbian Coming Out Narratives

    • Helen Sauntson
    Pages 140-164

  9. The Transformed Gay Self: the Male Body and its Scenic Presence as Sites of Gay Self-Enunciation

    • Stephan A. Grosse
    Pages 165-184

  10. The Subversive Effect of the Signals of Erotic Text Patterning

    • Michael Hoey
    Pages 185-203

  11. Going ‘Back to Basics’: Moral Panics about Heterosexual Relationships

    • Lia Litosseliti
    Pages 204-222

  12. Women Like Us: Mediating and Contesting Identity in Lesbian Advice Literature

    • Deborah A. Chirrey
    Pages 223-244

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-248
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Helen Sauntson

  • Kingston University, UK

    Sakis Kyratzis

About the editors

DEBORAH A. CHIRREY is a Lecturer in English Language at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in Lancashire, UK JENNIFER COATES is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Roehampton University, UK YVONNE DRÖSCHEL is a Research and Teaching Assistant in English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland STEPHAN A. GROSSE is based in Germany where he is a multilingual researcher and language professional specializing in intercultural communication and foreign language pedagogy MICHAEL HOEY is Baines Professor of English Language at the University of Liverpool, UK WILLIAM LEAP is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, American University (Washington DC), USA LIA LITOSSELITI is Lecturer in Linguistics at City University, London, UK LIZ MORRISH is Subject Leader of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK PIA PICHLER is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language, Sexualities and Desires

  • Book Subtitle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

  • Editors: Helen Sauntson, Sakis Kyratzis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625136

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3327-0Published: 14 December 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51660-5Published: 01 January 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62513-6Published: 14 December 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 248

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Gender Studies

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