Full Description
Queerly Phrased is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and gay studies, the contributors draw on traditional models of language analysis as well as recent developments in gender theory to show how language plays a crucial role in the creation of culture and its representation.
Contents
Anna Livia and Kira Hall, Editors: Introduction
Part 1: LAVENDER LEXICALITY
Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University and Ohio State University: Two Lavender Issues for Linguists
M. Lynne Murphy: The Elusive Bisexual: Social Categorization and Lexico-Semantic Change
Randy P. Conner, University of Texas: Les Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Pre-Modern France
Ian Lucas: The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
James Valentine: Pots and Pans: Identification of Queer Japanese in Terms of Discrimination
Michael J. Sweet: Talking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech
Diane Watt, University of Aberystwyth, Wales: Read My Lips: Clypping and Kyssing in the 16th Century
Marie-Jo Bonnet, Paris France: Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love
Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner: Lexical Variation in the Deaf Community Relating to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs
Lynne Murphy, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa: The Elusive "Bisexual"
Part 2: QUEERSPEAK
Rusty Barrett, University of Texas at Austin: The Homo-Genius Community
Elizabeth Morrish, Nottingham Trent University: "Falling Short of God's Ideal": Public Discourse about Lesbians and Gays
Jennifer Coates and Mary Ellen Jordan, Roehampton Institute and Melbourne University: Que(e)rying Friendship: Discourses of Resistance and the Construction of Gendered Subjectivity
Robin M. Queen: "I Don't Speak Spritch": Locating Lesbian Language
Kathleen M. Wood: Narrative Iconicity in Electronic-Mail, Lesbian Coming- Out Stories
A. C. Liang: The Creation of Coherence in Coming-Out Stories
William Leap, American University: Performative Effect in Three Gay English Texts
James Armstrong, State University of New York, Plattsburgh: Homophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse Among College Students
Tina Neumann, Gallaudet University: Deaf Identity, Lesbian Identity: Intersections in a Life Narrative
Birch Moonwomon-Baird, Ohio State University: Toward the Study of Lesbian Speech
Part 3: LINGUISTIC GENDER-BENDING
Anna Livia: Disloyal to Masculinity: Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity in French
Bruce Bagemihl, University of British Colombia, Canada: Surrogate Phonology and Transsexual Faggotry
Genevieve Pastre, Publisher, les Octaviennes, France: Linguistic Gender Play amoung French Gays and Lesbians
Janet Shibamoto Smith, University of California at Davis: The Gendering of the Gay Male Sex Class in Japan
Rudolf Gaudio, Stanford University: Not Talking Straight in Hausa
Kira Hall, University of California at Berkeley: Go Suck Your Husband's Sugarcane: Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult
