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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Of language, sexuality, and other creatures / Costas Canakis -- "Lesvia : (i) A same-sex desiring woman (ii) A woman inhabitant of Lesbos island" : the re-introduction of a word of Greek origin into modern Greece / Venetia Kantsa -- Inscribing gendered and national anxieties on insulting language : linguistic depictions of Greek male homosexuality / Anna Apostolidou -- Narrativising the body as a stimulus of desire : evidence from Greek youth storytelling / Argiris Archakis and Sofia Lampropoulou -- Power and ethnicity in construals of Greek women's heterosexualities / Konstantia Kosetzi -- Desire, sexualities, and "lifestyle" : masculinity constructs in three Greek men's lifestyle magazines / Alexandra Polyzou -- Eroticing male homo-subjectivities in online personals / Costas Canakis -- "Suspicious bodies" : erotic desire and self beyond "language" / Kostas Yannakopoulos -- The language of heterosexual desire in hostess bars / Liopi Abatzi -- The gender of voice : transgressing the boundaries of bodily sound / Panayotis Panopoulos -- Undoing language : gender dissent and the disquiet of silence / Athena Athanasiou |
| Summary |
This volume is a collection of papers on aspects of language and sexuality as understood and problematized by scholars in linguistics and anthropology. The idea behind this volume was to bring together people working on language-and-sexuality issues from within these two fields given that linguistic research on this topic is, more often than not, fieldwork-related and anthropological research characteristically focuses on issues of sexual onomasiology and semasiology, a concomitant of its pre .. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and sex.
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Language and languages -- Sex differences.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Sexual behaviour.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Language and languages -- Sex differences
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Language and sex
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Canakis, Costas, 1968-
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Kantsa, Venetia
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Yiannakopoulos, Kostas
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| ISBN |
1443822094 |
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9781443822091 |
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