Public Discourses of Gay Men

Public Discourses of Gay Men
ISBN-10
1134271573
ISBN-13
9781134271573
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
281
Language
English
Published
2006-02
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Paul Baker

Description

Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an important corrective, by investigating a variety of sources in the public domain. A broad range of material, including tabloid newspaper articles, political debates on homosexual law and erotic narratives are used in order to analyse the language surrounding homosexuality. Bringing together queer linguistics and corpus linguistics the text investigate how gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.

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