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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Word's out
    sub title: gay men's English
  name:
    name part: Leap, William
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 1996
    copyright date: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: William L. Leap.
  note: From the Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) and index.
  note: Association for Queer Anthropology Ruth Benedict Prize, 1996.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    geographic: United States
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: English language
    geographic: United States
    topic: Slang
  subject:
    topic: Americanisms
  subject:
    topic: Anglais (Langue)
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Argot
  subject:
    topic: Anglais (Langue)
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Idiotismes
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuels masculins
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Langage
  subject:
    topic: Americanisms
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Slang
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    topic: Language
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Soziolekt
  subject:
    topic: Homosexueller
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  subject:
    topic: Taalgebruik
  subject:
    topic: Engels
  subject:
    topic: Homoseksuelen
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    geographic: United States
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: English language
    geographic: United States
    topic: Slang
  subject:
    topic: Americanisms
  subject:
    geographic: Englisch
  classification: PE3727.G39 L43 1996
  classification: 427/.973/086642
  classification: 17.21
  identifier: 0816622523
  identifier: 9780816622528
  identifier: 0816622531
  identifier: 9780816622535
  identifier: 95035967
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 950810
    record change date: 20240415142110.1
    record identifier: in00001290083
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng