Public Discourses of Gay Men

ISBN-13: 9780415349734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 280 str.

Paul Baker; Paul Baker

Opis

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 a ~gay languagea (TM) 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 1. What Can I do with a Naked Corpus? 2. Unnatural Actus: The House of Lords debates on gay male law reform 3. Flamboyant, Predatory, Self-confessed Homosexual: Discourse prosodies in the British tabloid press 4. 'True Man' and 'Mc-fairyland': Gay identities in an American sitcom 5. 'No Effeminates Please': Discourses on gay men's personal adverts 6. As Big as a Beercan: A comparative keyword analysis of lesbian and gay male errotic narratives 7. Making Safer Sex Sexy: Border crossing, informalisation and gay identity in sexual health documentation 8. Conclusion Appendix References

O autorze

Paul Baker is a lecturer at Lancaster University and the author of Polari: the Lost Language of Gay Men.