Action Process Verbs
alter
Alter Personalities
Alter Relationships
broadsheet
Broadsheet Journalism
Category=CFB
Category=DS
Category=JBCC
Clause Complex
Collins COBUILD English Dictionary
Desire Arousal
discourse analysis
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Erotic Narratives
Extremely High Frequency
feminist linguistic theory
Fixed Identity Positions
gay
Gay Interviewees
Gay Men
Gay Poetry
gender identity studies
Genre Chain
Heterosexual Feminists
interviewees
intimacy communication
item
journalism
lexical
linguistic construction of romantic desire
man
media language research
Noun Group
Passionate Awakening
Persona
Personal Ad
Prepositional Object
Problem Solution Pattern
Reciprocal Verbs
relationships
sociolinguistics
straight
Straight Men
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415136921
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This original and intriguing collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject's capacity to express desire.
The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies and cultural studies. They examine and probe:
* language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire
* language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire
* attitudes and assumptions about romantic and sexual desire embodied in English
* implications for the construction of romantic and sexual identity
Keith Harvey is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. Celia Shalom is a lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics in the English Language Studies Unit at the University of Liverpool.
