New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 1-24

3. Examining Lesbian Conversations as Discourses of Identity and Resistance

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 25-52

4. Analysing Evaluation in Coming Out Narratives

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 53-86

5. The Language of Shame, Risk and Concealment

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 87-111

6. Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 112-136

7. Sexual Identity and Gender: Discursive Constructions of ‘Butch’ and ‘Femme’ in Film

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 137-165

8. Camp Codes and Subtle Outing: How the British Broadsheet Press Learned Gay Slang

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 166-197

9. Conclusion

   • Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

   Pages 198-209

10. Back Matter

    Pages 210-223

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Presenting new and exciting data from lesbian and gay conversations, narratives, representations of lesbians in film and erotic fiction, and representations of prominent gay men in newspapers, this book looks at some of the ways lesbians and gay men construct identity from among the symbolic resources available within lesbian and gay communities.

• construction
• corpus
• discourse
• fiction
• film
• identity
• knowledge
• press
• resistance
• discourse analysis

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  Liz Morrish

• University of Birmingham, UK

  Helen Sauntson

ELIZABETH MORRISH is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests lie in the area of language and sexual identity. She is on the organizing committee of the annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics series of conferences.

HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University, UK. Her main teaching and research interests are in the areas of discourse analysis, language, gender and sexuality and language in education. She is co-editor of Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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