《Speaking in Queer Tongues》是2003年University of Illinois Press出版的圖書，作者是Leap, William L. (EDT)、Boellstorff, Tom (EDT)。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Speaking in Queer Tongues
- 作者：Leap, William L. (EDT)、Boellstorff, Tom (EDT)
- 出版社：University of Illinois Press
- 出版時間：2003年11月7日
- 頁數：336 頁
- 定價：19.95 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780252071423
- 副標題：Globalization and Gay Language
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Language is a fundamental tool for shaping identity and community, including the expression (or repression) of sexual desire. "Speaking in Queer Tongues" investigates the tensions and adaptations that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. Western constructions of gay culture are now circulating widely beyond the boundaries of Western nations due to influences as diverse as Internet communication, global dissemination of entertainment and other media, increased travel and tourism, migration, displacement, and transnational citizenship. The authority claimed by these constructions, and by the linguistic codes embedded in them, is causing them to have a profound impact on public and private expressions of homosexuality in locations as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa, New Zealand, Indonesia and Israel. Examining a wide range of global cultures, "Speaking in Queer Tongues" presents essays on topics that include old versus new sexual vocabularies, the rhetoric of gay-oriented magazines and news media, verbal and nonverbalized sexual imagery in poetry and popular culture, and the linguistic consequences of the globalized gay rights movement.
作者簡介
William Leap also known as Bill Leap is a professor of anthropology at American University who works in the field of gay and lesbian linguistics.
