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This book explores some of the ways in which gay men in the United States use English in everyday life and demonstrates that Gay English is an important and valuable component of gay experience in those contexts.
Introduction: Studying Gay Men's English -- 1. Can There Be Gay Discourse without Gay Language? -- 2. Gay English as Cooperative Discourse -- 3. Ensuring Cooperative Discourse: Exaggeration, Turn Taking, Pauses, and Terminals -- 4. The Risk Outside: Gay English, "Suspect Gays," and Heterosexuals -- 5. Claiming Gay Space: Bathroom Graffiti, Songs about Cities, and "Queer" Reference -- 6. Language, Risk, and Space in a Health Club Locker Room -- 7. Gay English in a "Desert of Nothing": Language and Gay Socialization -- 8. Gay English and the Language of AIDS -- Conclusion: Gay English, Authenticity, and Performative Effect.
From the Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) and index.
Association for Queer Anthropology Ruth Benedict Prize, 1996.