Online Sex Talk and the Social World
Mediated Desire
Authors: Myketiak, Chrystie
Free Preview- Analyses a large naturally-occurring set of unique sex talk data from an online community of practice
- Examines what occurs discursively and linguistically in this community and how those practices can be understood as social forces
- Explores the discursive strategies that participants adopt to codify a non-sexual community of practice as heterosexual
- Looks to the future of sex talk and technology, including AI and sex robots of different kinds and the controversies that surround them
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- About this book
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This book develops a feminist and queer linguistic account of the construction of sex, sexuality, and desire through a linguistic and discursive analysis of naturally occurring sex talk from an online community. Critical discourse analysis is used to analyse a corpus of data drawn from incidental sex 'talk' observed in the community over the course of an 18-month period. Sub-types of sex talk that are examined include cybersex, self-disclosure, confidences, joking, games, flirting, and automated sexual commands that ‘generate’ sex between participants. The book will be of use to students and researchers interested in the language of gender and sexuality, as well as feminist and queer accounts of technology and sexual communication.
- About the authors
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Chrystie Myketiak is Principal Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research investigates discourse and narratives in text and media with a focus on language use in relation to issues of power, identity, and inequality.
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“Myketiak's book makes important contributions to our understanding of how desire plays out through online talk. Broad in scope and solidly grounded in theory, her work is complemented by a depth of description and analysis that make it a valuable reference for discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and scholarship in computer mediated communication.” (Eric Louis Russell, UC Davis, USA)
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-31
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Theorising Sexuality in Talk
Pages 33-72
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Walford and Methods
Pages 73-97
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Coding Spaces and Marking Practices
Pages 99-132
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Sex Talk Intimacies
Pages 133-165
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Online Sex Talk and the Social World
- Book Subtitle
- Mediated Desire
- Authors
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- Chrystie Myketiak
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-53579-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-53579-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-53578-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 238
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