Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language

Type

Book

Authors

ISBN 10

0252071425

ISBN 13

9780252071423

Tags

Linguistics, General, Gay & Lesbian, Globalization, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology

Description

Investigates the tensions that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. This book presents essays on topics that include old versus new sexual vocabularies, the rhetoric of gay-oriented magazines and news media, and verbal and nonverbalized sexual imagery in poetry. - from Amzon

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