[lg policy] Fwd: [Linganth] Book announcement: Language, Sexuality and Power

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: Erez Levon <e.levon at qmul.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:05 PM

Book announcement:* Language, Sexuality and Power*




Dear all,



(apologies for multiple postings)



I wanted to announce the publication of a new book that may be of interest
to list members:



*Language, Sexuality and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics*

Edited by Erez Levon and Ronald Beline Mendes. Oxford University Press
(Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality).



*Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics
examines the diversity of sexuality as a social and linguistic phenomenon.
Bringing together work on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North
America and the Middle East, the volume explores how different ideologies
of what it means to belong to a nation or culture influence how sexualities
are both understood and linguistically expressed in a range of global
locales.*



*Contributions to the volume use experiments, discourse analysis and
different types of statistical tests to identify the particular aspects of
language - accent, grammar, vocabulary, discourse - that are ideologically
associated with sexuality in specific contexts. Combining insights from
linguistics, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, the essays
describe how individuals draw on these culturally-specific associations
both when evaluating the speech of others and in their everyday
presentations of self. Together, the eleven chapters in the collection
provide a wide-ranging and multi-method perspective on how language
mediates individual desires and larger social structures. They also serve
to demonstrate the diverse interconnections between sexuality and other
dimensions of lived experience in a variety of previously under-explored
national and linguistic settings.*



More details (including a full table of contents) can be found here:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/language-sexuality-and-power-9780190210373



best,

Erez





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Dr Erez Levon

Department of Linguistics

Queen Mary, University of London

http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/elevon



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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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