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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Brian King <brian.w.king@VUW.AC.NZ><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> GALA-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, December 15, 2010 10:49:15 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [GALA-L] Language and Virginity<BR></FONT><BR>Hello Everyone<BR><BR>I'm writing a chapter of my thesis and I need some advice on literature. In the <BR>chapter, I'm undertaking discourse analysis of some audio-recorded data of <BR>secondary school students in a sexuality lesson talking about virginity. I plan <BR>to analyse the ways in which the students treat 'virgin' as a sexual subject <BR>position and rework it as a category.<BR><BR>I haven't been able to find any literature related to language use and the <BR>concept of virginity. It seems surprising that there would be nothing out there <BR>on this topic, but I've searched
high and low and come up with nothing. <BR><BR>Is anyone aware of an article or chapter somewhere that explores this <BR>construct from a language/discourse perspective?<BR><BR>Thank you for your time.<BR><BR>Brian King<BR>Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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