Paul Baker

Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which Polari - a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men - was used in order to construct 'gay identities' in the UK over the past fifty years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134506347
• Artikelnr.: 42640816

Autorenporträt

Paul Baker is a research associate at the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University. His research interests include endangered and minority languages, language and sexualities and corpus based approached to language engineering. He has published papers in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Literary and Linguistics Computing and Computer Assisted Language Learning. He is a committee member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.