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Paperback Language and Sexuality Book

ISBN: 0521009693

ISBN13: 9780521009690

Language and Sexuality

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This accessible book looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on examples that range from personal ads to phone sex, sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, this work provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality. Using a broad definition of sexuality, it encompasses not only issues surrounding sexual orientation and identity, but also questions about the discursive...

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The two most interesting topics put together!

I really loved reading this. Firstly, it was very well written. It also is a good example of the political applications of linguistic analysis, like preferred and dispreferred responses in the issue of consent and rape, or perfomatives, gender and the idea of the authentic self. In addition to the high brow intellectual stuff, to make their points they also brings in some juicy fun things like phone sex, sadomasochism, polari and even the movie "When Harry Met Sally."
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