Language and the Politics of Sexuality - Lesbians and Gays in Israel

Informationen zum Autor EREZ LEVON is Lecturer in Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research examines the interaction of language, gender, sexuality and nationalism in the United States and Israel, and has been published in journals such as Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguistics.   Klappentext Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Zusammenfassung Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies! this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual! national and political identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Note on Translations and Transcriptions Introduction Israel, Zionism and Sexual Subjectivity Language and Mechanisms of Identification The Politics of Prosody Discourses of Sexuality Conclusion Notes References Index

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Acknowledgements Note on Translations and Transcriptions Introduction Israel, Zionism and Sexual Subjectivity Language and Mechanisms of Identification The Politics of Prosody Discourses of Sexuality Conclusion Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: E Levon, E. Levon, Erez Levon, Levon Erez
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780230227965
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22796-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language and Literature, Linguistics, general, Language: reference & general, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: general, Stylistics, Philology, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection