Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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by  Helen Sauntson, Sakis Kyratzis (eds.)

Language, Sexualities and Desires
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Language, Sexualities and
Desires
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Editedby
Helen Sauntson
UniversityofBirmingham
and
Sakis Kyratzis
KingstonUniversity
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Contents
ListofFigures vii
ListofTables viii
Acknowledgements ix
NotesonContributors x
Introduction:Language,SexualitiesandDesires 1
Helen Sauntson and Sakis Kyratzis
1 SexTalk:Language,Desire,IdentityandBeyond 17
Liz Morrish and William Leap
2 ‘EveryoneWasConvincedthatWeWereClosetFags’:the
RoleofHeterosexualityintheConstructionofHegemonic
Masculinity 41
Jennifer Coates
3 ‘This Sex Thing Is such a Big Issue now’: Sex Talk and
IdentitiesinThreeGroupsofAdolescentGirls 68
Pia Pichler
4 The Semantics of Desire: Exploring Desire, Love and
SexualitythroughMetaphor 96
Sakis Kyratzis
5 QueeringLanguage:aLovethatDarenotSpeakitsName
ComesOutoftheCloset 118
Yvonne Dröschel
6 Education,CultureandtheConstructionofSexualIdentity:
anAPPRAISALAnalysisofLesbianComingOutNarratives 140
Helen Sauntson
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7 TheTransformedGaySelf:theMaleBodyanditsScenic
PresenceasSitesofGaySelf-Enunciation 165
Stephan A. Grosse
8 TheSubversiveEffectoftheSignalsofEroticTextPatterning 185
Michael Hoey
9 Going‘BacktoBasics’:MoralPanicsaboutHeterosexual
Relationships 204
Lia Litosseliti
10 WomenLikeUs:MediatingandContestingIdentityin
LesbianAdviceLiterature 223
Deborah A. Chirrey
Index 245
List of Figures
4.1 Thetwo-spacedmodel 97
6.1 OptionsavailablewithinattitudinalAPPRAISAL 146
6.2 JUDGEMENTandAPPRECIATIONasinstitutionalisedAFFECT 147
6.3 JUDGEMENTcategories 149
8.1 Patternsin‘NaAlcova’ 194
8.2 ThepatternsthatcontributetotheorganisationofThe
DominantMale 197
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List of Tables
2.1 Thedatabase 43
2.2 Gender of characters in stories told in all-male and
all-femaleconversation 52
5.1 Polariterms(Americangaymen) 127
5.2 Mostfrequenttermsofreference 129
5.3 Termsofreference 134
5.4 EnglishspeakersinNorthAmerica 134
5.5 EnglishspeakersinEngland 134
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Acknowledgements
Helen Sauntson (Ch. 6) would like to express her gratitude to David
Ralphsforpermittinghertousethewebsitewww.comingoutstories.com
forresearchpurposesandtoLexieDonandLizMorrishforcommenting
onearlierdraftsofherchapter.
Stephan Grosse (Ch. 7) wishes to thank his reviewers, Dr Margaret
Rogers,UniversityofSurrey,Guildford,andDrRosaM.RodriguezMagda
of the Fundaciön Valencia Tercer Milenio for their helpful suggestions
andcomments.
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