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New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity

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Authors:
  1. Liz Morrish

    1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

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  2. Helen Sauntson

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Liz Morrish

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Helen Sauntson

About the authors

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity

  • Authors: Liz Morrish, Helen Sauntson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599406

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3796-4Published: 11 October 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59940-6Published: 11 October 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 223

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies

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