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Routledge
280 Pages
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by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Paul Baker is a lecturer at Lancaster University and the author of Polari: the Lost Language of Gay Men.
