Paul Baker

Public Discourses of Gay Men (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Data from a range of publicly available sources is used to analyse the language surrounding homosexuality. This text brings together Queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134271573
• Artikelnr.: 43070705

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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