Language and the Politics of Sexuality

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-26

3. Israel, Zionism and Sexual Subjectivity

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   Pages 27-59

4. Language and Mechanisms of Identification

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   Pages 60-90

5. The Politics of Prosody

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   Pages 91-129

6. Discourses of Sexuality

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   Pages 130-159

7. Conclusion

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   Pages 160-172

8. Back Matter

   Pages 173-199

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Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities.

• identification
• Israel
• language
• linguistics
• politics
• transcription
• literary diction

• Queen Mary, University of London, UK

  Erez Levon

EREZ LEVON is Lecturer in Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research examines the interaction of language, gender, sexuality and nationalism in the United States and Israel, and has been published in journals such as Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguistics. 

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