Public Discourses of Gay Men

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-85022-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an important corrective, by investigating a variety of sources in the public domain. A broad range of material, including tabloid newspaper articles, political debates on homosexual law and erotic narratives are used in order to analyse the language surrounding homosexuality. Bringing together queer linguistics and corpus linguistics the text investigate how gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements 1. What Can I do with a Naked Corpus? 2. Unnatural Actus: The House of Lords debates on gay male law reform 3. Flamboyant, Predatory, Self-confessed Homosexual: Discourse prosodies in the British tabloid press 4. 'True Man' and 'Mc-fairyland': Gay identities in an American sitcom 5. 'No Effeminates Please': Discourses on gay men's personal adverts 6. As Big as a Beercan: A comparative keyword analysis of lesbian and gay male errotic narratives 7. Making Safer Sex Sexy: Border crossing, informalisation and gay identity in sexual health documentation 8. Conclusion Appendix References

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Baker is a lecturer at Lancaster University and the author of Polari: the Lost Language of Gay Men.