Paul Baker

Public Discourses of Gay Men

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics is brought together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415850223
• ISBN-10: 0415850223
• Artikelnr.: 37086462

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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