Language and Desire. Encoding Sex

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LANGUAGE AND DESIRE
Language and Desire
is an original and intriguing exploration into the language
we use to talk about and express romantic and sexual desire.
The contributors use a rich variety of approaches to analyse the features and
patterns of this discourse, including empirical linguistics and discourse
analysis. They engage directly with issues in critical linguistics, women’s
studies and gender studies. In particular they investigate:
•
the language used to encode romantic and sexual desire;
•
the attitudes and assumptions about romantic and sexual desire that are
embodied in English;
•
the relations between language and the construction of identities based
upon manifestations of desire.
Contributors include:
Sara Mills, Joanna Channell, Mary Talbot and
Michael Hoey.
Language and Desire
will attract a varied readership including students of
linguistics, women’s studies, gender studies, and lesbian and gay studies.
Keith Harvey
is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of East
Anglia.
Celia Shalom
is a lecturer in English Language and Applied Lin-
guistics in the English Language Studies Unit at the University of Liverpool.
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Also available from Routledge:
FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF LANGUAGE
Deborah Cameron
GENDER ARTICULATED
Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz
LANGUAGE AND DESIRE
Encoding sex, romance and intimacy
Edited by Keith Harvey and Celia Shalom
London and New York
First published 1997
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© Keith Harvey and Celia Shalom, the edited collection;
individual contributions © 1997 the contributors
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter
invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Language and desire: encoding sex, romance, and intimacy/edited by
Keith Harvey and Celia Shalom.
1. Language and sex.
I. Harvey, Keith, 1959–
.
II. Shalom,
Celia, 1953– .
P120.S48L33 1997
306.44–dc21
96–37726
CIP
ISBN 0-203-43702-0 Master e-book ISBN
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ISBN 0-415-13691-1 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-13692-X (pbk)
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