LINGUIST List 13.219

Mon Jan 28 2002

Books: Anthropological/Sociolinguistics.

Editor for this issue: Richard John Harvey <richardlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Christine Sosa, Anthropological/Sociolinguistics: Language and Sexuality

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of:

LANGUAGE AND SEXUALITY: CONTESTING MEANING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE; 
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Robert J. Podesva, Sarah J. Roberts, and 
Andrew Wong(Stanford University):
Paper ISBN: 1-57586-320-0, $27.50, 
Cloth ISBN: 1-57586-319-7, $67.50,
305 pages.
CSLI Publications 2002. 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu
Email: pubscsli.stanford.edu.

To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call
their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or
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to locate the book, then order).

Book description:

Language and Sexuality explores how linguistic practices and language
ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity. Drawing on work in
a variety of fields including sociolinguistics, linguistic
anthropology, and queer theory, this volume focuses on the negotiation
of meaning in both academic theory and everyday practice. The
theoretical discussion in Part I assesses the current state and future
possibilities of an emerging field known by many names, such as queer
linguistics, language and sexuality, and language and desire, among
others. These essays discuss the ongoing debates over the scope of the
field and the role of queer theory in sociolinguistic analysis. Part
II moves from theory to practice, examining language use in a variety
of cultural settings, from the creation of a lesbian community through
personals in a French magazine to magic spells among the Petalangan
people of Indonesia to narratives of heterosexuality among American
college fraternity men. Language and Sexuality brings together the
perspectives of this emerging field's foremost scholars with fresh
research, promising an engaging mix of new ideas on the many ways that
language use may intersect with sexuality.