<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: -42.55pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 42.55pt" class=MsoBodyText2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>The following articles deal with male and female sexuality in the Greek Cypriot culture respectively. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>The second one </SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: -42.55pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 42.55pt" class=MsoBodyText2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>using discourse analysis as a methodology. The data consist of video and audio-recorded performances of Cyprus verbal dueling </SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: -42.55pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 42.55pt" class=MsoBodyText2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>Doukanari, Elli. 2008.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“I’ll be a rooster crowing in the hen coop, but you’ll be a hen and I’ll be bothering you”:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The male sexual identity in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cyprus</st1:place></st1:country-region> verbal dueling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Gender and Sexual Identities in Transition: Cross-cultural Perspectives</I>, ed. by Jose Santaemilia and Patricia Bou, 118-141.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:place></st1:City> Scholar
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-INDENT: -42.55pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 42.55pt" class=MsoBodyText2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Doukanari, Elli. </SPAN>2007.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Female sexuality in Greek-Cypriot chattista:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Traditional ideologies re-evaluated and negotiated. In <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">International Perspectives on Gender and Language, </I>ed. by Jose Santaemilia, Patricia Bou, Sergio Maruenda and Gora Zaragoza, 105-124.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Valencia</st1:place></st1:country-region>: Universitat de Valencia.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV>Elli Doukanari, Ph.D</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Neslihan yetkiner <n_yetkiner@YAHOO.COM><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> Thu, December 16, 2010 9:48:42 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [GALA-L] Language and Virginity<BR></FONT><BR>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A href="http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/arts/2006/Kansu-Yetkiner/thesis.pdf" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'serif'; COLOR: #0066cc; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/arts/2006/Kansu-Yetkiner/thesis.pdf</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I consired virginity and nuptial night experiences as sensitive topics where I was searching for evasive strategies during face to face interaction through recorded data(16 hours).</SPAN></P>
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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></DIV></DIV>
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