Word's out : gay men's English / William L. Leap.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leap, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americanisms.

English language--Social aspects--United States.

English language.

English language--United States--Slang.

Gay men--United States--Language.

Gay men.

Gay culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 180 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 English as a cultural and a linguistic phenomenon.

Contents:

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

Conclusion: Gay English, Authenticity, and Performative Effect; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8507-X

OCLC:

614486166