New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity
Morrish, Liz
Sauntson, Helen
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BOOK SUMMARY
Language and Sexual Identity demonstrates how gay men and lesbians employ language for the creation of a situated identity. Real linguistic data is analysed using textual analysis, spoken language analysis and corpus linguistic approaches. Each chapter fo
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Language and Sexual Identity demonstrates how gay men and lesbians employ language for the creation of a situated identity. Real linguistic data is analysed using textual analysis, spoken language analysis and corpus linguistic approaches. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of data and linguistic analysis and the authors relate their findings to sociolinguistic theories of communities of practice.
AUTHOR BIO
ELIZABETH MORRISH is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University, UK.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403937966
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403937964
Dewey Decimal: 306.44
Library of Congress: 2008013601
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 223
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