I>Language, Sexualities and Desires presents new research on the use of language as evidence for the construction of sexual identities. The contributors offer real-life data originating from a number of cultures, and a polysexual focus. They show how linguistic research in the areas of desire, sexual identities and love can benefit from a cross-cultural approach.
Specific issues that are explored include:
" How people use various linguistic features to construct their sexual identities and relationships, and how this varies from culture to culture
" How people express love and desire through a range of linguistic features
" What people's linguistic behaviour reveals about conceptualisations of love and sexuality within different cultures
" How membership of specific social groups, based on sexual and lifestyle choices, may be signalled through language
" How social and political discourses of love and sexuality may be identified and constructed through language in situated cultures and contexts
Introduction: Language, Sexualities and Desires; H.Saunston & S.Kyratzis
Sex Talk: Language, Desire, Identity and Beyond; L.Morrish & W.Leap
"Everyone was convinced that we were closet fags": The Role of Heterosexuality in the Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity; J.Coates
"This Sex Thing is such an Important Issue now": Sex Talk and Identities in Three Groups of Adolescent Girls; P.Pichler
The Semantics of Desire: Exploring Desire, Love and Sexuality Through Metaphor; S.Kyratzis
Queering Language: A Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name Comes Out of the Closet; Y.Dröschel
Education, Culture and the Construction of Sexual Identity: An Appraisal Analysis of Lesbian Coming Out Narratives; H.Sauntson
The Transformed Gay Self: The Male Body and Its Scenic Presence as Sites of Gay Self-Enunciation; S.A.Grosse
The Subversive Effect of the Signals of Erotic Text Patterning; M.Hoey
Going 'Back to Basics': Moral Panics about Heterosexual Relationships; L.Litosseliti
Women Like Us: Mediating and Contesting Identity in Lesbian Advice Literature; D.A.Chirrey
Index
HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her main teaching and research interests are in the areas of discourse analysis, language, gender and sexuality and language in education. She has published work on classroom discourse and language and sexual identity.
SAKIS KYRATZIS is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication at Kingston University, London, UK. His main research interests lie in the intersection of semantics and pragmatics. His published work relates to functions of metaphors in political discourse and in everyday interaction.
Description
I>Language, Sexualities and Desires presents new research on the use of language as evidence for the construction of sexual identities. The contributors offer real-life data originating from a number of cultures, and a polysexual focus. They show how linguistic research in the areas of desire, sexual identities and love can benefit from a cross-cultural approach.
Specific issues that are explored include:
" How people use various linguistic features to construct their sexual identities and relationships, and how this varies from culture to culture
" How people express love and desire through a range of linguistic features
" What people's linguistic behaviour reveals about conceptualisations of love and sexuality within different cultures
" How membership of specific social groups, based on sexual and lifestyle choices, may be signalled through language
" How social and political discourses of love and sexuality may be identified and constructed through language in situated cultures and contexts
Contents
Introduction: Language, Sexualities and Desires; H.Saunston & S.Kyratzis
Sex Talk: Language, Desire, Identity and Beyond; L.Morrish & W.Leap
"Everyone was convinced that we were closet fags": The Role of Heterosexuality in the Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity; J.Coates
"This Sex Thing is such an Important Issue now": Sex Talk and Identities in Three Groups of Adolescent Girls; P.Pichler
The Semantics of Desire: Exploring Desire, Love and Sexuality Through Metaphor; S.Kyratzis
Queering Language: A Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name Comes Out of the Closet; Y.Dröschel
Education, Culture and the Construction of Sexual Identity: An Appraisal Analysis of Lesbian Coming Out Narratives; H.Sauntson
The Transformed Gay Self: The Male Body and Its Scenic Presence as Sites of Gay Self-Enunciation; S.A.Grosse
The Subversive Effect of the Signals of Erotic Text Patterning; M.Hoey
Going 'Back to Basics': Moral Panics about Heterosexual Relationships; L.Litosseliti
Women Like Us: Mediating and Contesting Identity in Lesbian Advice Literature; D.A.Chirrey
Index
Authors
HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her main teaching and research interests are in the areas of discourse analysis, language, gender and sexuality and language in education. She has published work on classroom discourse and language and sexual identity.
SAKIS KYRATZIS is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication at Kingston University, London, UK. His main research interests lie in the intersection of semantics and pragmatics. His published work relates to functions of metaphors in political discourse and in everyday interaction.
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