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Speaking in queer tongues : globalization and gay language / edited by William L. Leap and Tom Boellstorff.

Other author/creatorLeap, William.
Other author/creatorBoellstorff, Tom, 1969-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2004.
Description288 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Globalization and "new" articulations of same-sex desire / Tom Boellstorff and William L. Leap -- Vague English Creole: (gay English) cooperative discourse in the French gay press / Denis M. Provencher -- Qwir-English code-mixing in Germany: constructing a rainbow of identities / Heidi Minning -- French, English, and the idea of gay language in Montreal / Ross Higgins -- Dancing on the needle's edge: gay lingo in an Israeli disco / Liora Moriel -- Language, belonging, and (homo)sexual citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa / William L. Leap -- Takatāpui, gay, or just ho-mo-sexual, darling? Māori language, sexual terminology, and identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand / David A.B. Murray -- "Authentic, of course!": Gay language in Indonesia and cultures of belonging / Tom Boellstorff -- Gay adaptation, Tom-Dee resistance, and Kathoey indifference: Thailand's gender/sex minorities and the episodic allure of queer English / Peter A. Jackson -- Pájaration and transculturation: language and meaning in Miami's Cuban American gay worlds / Susana Peña -- Mother knows best: Black gay vernacular and transgressive domestic space / E. Patrick Johnson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003003715
ISBN0252028716 (alk. paper)
ISBN0252071425 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks P35 .P57 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold