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Publication details [#66345]

Dickerson, Carly. 2019. The linguistic expression of gender identity: Albania’s “sworn virgins”. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019 (256) : 57–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | gender | identity negotiation | language use | speaker

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper centers on the linguistic aspects of the construction of masculine identities by the burrneshat (also known as “sworn virgins”) of northern Albania: biological females who have become “social men”.