Kyratzis, Sakis
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
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
- Editor
- Kyratzis, Sakis
- Sauntson, Helen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 260 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230625136
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-51660-5