Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice
Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice
edited by Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Robert J. Podesva, Sarah Roberts and Andrew Wong
CSLI, 2001 eISBN: 978-1-57586-909-4 | Paper: 978-1-57586-320-7 | Cloth: 978-1-57586-319-1 Library of Congress Classification P120.S48L346 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4408664
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Language and Sexuality explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the emerging field of "queer linguistics" and moving from theory into practice with case studies of language use in a wide variety of cultural settings. The resulting volume combines the perspectives of the field's top scholars with exciting new research to present new ideas on the ways in which language use intersects with sexual identity.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Robert J. Podesva, Sarah J. Roberts, and Andrew Wong are in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Speaking of Sex 1
ANDREW WONG, SARAH J. ROBERTS AND KATHRYN
CAMPBELL-KIBLER
Part 1: Contesting Meaning in Theory 23
2 Is Queer Theory Important for Sociolinguistic Theory? 25
RUSTY BARRETT
3 Not Entirely in Support of a Queer Linguistics 45
BILL LEAP
4 Queer Linguistics? 65
DON KULICK
5 A Matter of Interpretation: The 'Future' of 'Queer 69
Linguistics'
ROBIN QUEEN
6 The Future of Queer Linguistics 87
ANNA LIVIA
7 Demystifying Sexuality and Desire 99
PENELOPE ECKERT
8 Language, Sexuality and Political Economy 111
BONNIE MCELHINNY
Part 2: Contesting Meaning in Practice 135
9 Queering Semantics: Definitional Struggles 137
SALLY MCCONNELL-GINET
10 The Semantic Derogation of Tongzhi: A Synchronic 161
Perspective
ANDREW WONG
11 Sharing Resources and Indexing Meanings in the 175
Production of Gay Styles
ROBERT J. PODESVA, SARAH J. ROBERTS AND KATHRYN
CAMPBELL-KIBLER
12 Camionneuses s'abstenir: Lesbian Community 191
Creation Through the Personals
ANNA LIVIA
13 Identity and Script Variation: Japanese Lesbian and 207
Housewife Letters to the Editor
HEIDI FRANK
14 Skirting Around: Towards an Understanding of 225
HIV/AIDS Educational Materials in Modern Israeli Hebrew
HARRIS SOLOMON
15 Playing the Straight Man: Displaying and Maintaining 249
Male Heterosexuality in Discourse
SCOTT F. KIESLING
16 'Open Desire, Close the Body': Magic Spells, Desire 267
and the Body Among the Petalangan Women in Indonesia
YOONHEE KANG