Journal of Language and Sexuality

Volume 6, Issue 1 (2017)

2017. iii, 203 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.6.1

Table of Contents

Articles

“How my hair look?”: Linguistic authenticity and racialized gender and sexuality on The Wire

Qiuana Lopez & Mary Bucholtz | pp. 1–29
Unnatural acts lead to unconsummated marriages: Discourses of homosexuality within the House of Lords debate on same-sex marriage

Jamie Y. Findlay | pp. 30–60
“Imagine a boy who is adopted by a pair of lesbians (poor little sod)…”: A membership categorisation analysis of online comments on same-gender adoption

Aleksandra Sokalska-Bennett | pp. 61–89
“Building a thick skin for each other”: The use of ‘reading’ as an interactional practice of mock impoliteness in drag queen backstage talk

Sean McKinnon | pp. 90–127
Style shifting and the phonetic performance of gay vs. straight: A case study from French

Eric Louis Russell | pp. 128–176
Bilingual/bisexual: Linguistic and sexual fluidity in fictional accounts of bilingualism and language learning

Lyn Wright | pp. 177–203

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFB: Sociolinguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General