Title: Gay and lesbian language: historical perspectives
Abstract: Studies of language and homosexuality initially focused on collecting decontextualized vocabulary items from gay men in Euro‐American societies. Research moved to focus on the different contexts in which such language items could be used, as well as trying to identify whether gay men or lesbians spoke in a way that was recognizably gay, although such research was problematic in that it was unable to reveal anything that was uniquely and universally “gay” about language. By viewing sexuality from a social constructionist perspective, focus shifted to ideas of numerous interacting communities and the notion that sexuality differs over time and between societies. More recent research has focused on how different identities and communities intersect to produce particular speech styles, how language is used to construct sexual identities across a range of different cultures, as well as exploring how heterosexual identities are expressed.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-04-20
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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