Language, sexualities and desires
Subtitle: cross-cultural perspectives
By: edited by Helen Sauntson and Sakis Kyratzis.
Contributors: Sauntson, Helen, 1972-; Kyratzis, Sakis, 1969-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781403933270
Subjects: Language and sex; Language and culture; Communication -- Sex differences; Language and languages -- Sex differences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Language, sexualities and desires / Helen Sauntson and Sakis Kyratzis; title: Sex talk : language, desire, identity and beyond / Liz Morrish and William Leap; title: 'Everyone was convinced that we were closet fags' : the role of heterosexuality in the construction of hegemonic masculinity / Jennifer Coates; title: 'This sex thing is such an important issue now' : sex talk and identities in three groups of adolescent girls / Pia Pichler; title: The semantics of desire : exploring desire, love and sexuality through metaphor / Sakis Kyratzis; title: Queering language : a love that dare not speak its name comes out of the closet / Yvonne Dröschel; title: Education, culture and the construction of sexual identity : an appraisal analysis of lesbian coming out narratives / Helen Sauntson; title: The transformed gay self : the male body and its scenic presence as sites of gay self-enunciation / Stephan A. Grosse; title: The subversive effect of the signals of erotic text patterning / Michael Hoey; title: Going 'back to basics' : moral panics about heterosexual relationships / Lia Litosseliti; title: Women like us : mediating and contesting identity in lesbian advice literature / Deborah A. Chirrey.