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Speaking of sex : the limits of language /

Nowadays we talk about sex incessantly - yet we still lack a comfortable language in which to do so. The 'polite' vocabularies of religion, medicine, law and sociology are too formal, value-laden and often simply boring, whilst the vernacular Anglo-Saxon words are regarded by some as '...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grey, Antony, 1927-2010
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Cassell, 1993.
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Speaking of Sex . . .; 2 The Power of Words; 3 Metaphor, Myth, and Rhetoric; 4 The Language of the Church; 5 The Language of the Law; 6 The Language of the Sexperts; 7 The Language of Sexual Politics; 8 The Language of the Market Place; 9 What Is This Thing Called Love?; 10 Sexshame and Sexhate; 11 What About the Children?; 12 Twenty-first Century -- All Change!; References. 
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