Language, Sexualities and Desires

1. Introduction: Language, Sexualities and Desires
Helen Sauntson, Sakis Kyratzis

2. Sex Talk: Language, Desire, Identity and Beyond
Liz Morrish, William Leap

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

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

5. The Semantics of Desire: Exploring Desire, Love and Sexuality through Metaphor
Sakis Kyratzis

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

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

8. The Transformed Gay Self: the Male Body and its Scenic Presence as Sites of Gay Self-Enunciation
Stephan A. Grosse

9. The Subversive Effect of the Signals of Erotic Text Patterning
Michael Hoey

10. Going ‘Back to Basics’: Moral Panics about Heterosexual Relationships
Lia Litosseliti

11. Women Like Us: Mediating and Contesting Identity in Lesbian Advice Literature
Deborah A. Chirrey

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Gender Studies