Word's Out : Gay Men's English /

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Do gay men communicate with each other differently than they do with straight people? If they do, how is "gay men's English" different from "straight English"? In Word's Out, William Leap addresses these questions in an entertaining account that looks at gay men's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leap, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gay men > Language.
English language > Social aspects.
English language > Slang.
Americanisms.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Argot.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Idiotismes.
Gay men > United States > Language.
English language > United States > Slang.
English language > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Examples; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Studying Gay Men's English; 1 Can There Be Gay Discourse without Gay Language?; 2 Gay English as Cooperative Discourse; 3 Ensuring Cooperative Discourse: Exaggeration, Turn Taking, Pauses, and Terminals; 4 The Risk Outside: Gay English, "Suspect Gays," and Heterosexuals; 5 Claiming Gay Space: Bathroom Graffiti, Songs about Cities, and "Queer" Reference; 6 Language, Risk, and Space in a Health Club Locker Room; 7 Gay English in a "Desert of Nothing": Language and Gay Socialization; 8 Gay English and the Language of AIDS.

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