Sexed Texts - Language, Gender and Sexuality - Paul Baker
Accounting for difference
Sexed Texts - Language, Gender and Sexuality - Paul Baker
Paul Baker [+]
Lancaster University
Paul Baker is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. His previous books include Public Discourses of Gay Men, Hello Sailor and Using Corpora for Discourse Analysis. He has also published on the subject of Polari, a lost language variety used by gay men.
Description
Topics include: Introduction; Jespersen and Legman – deficit; Second wave feminism – dominance; Sexist language and political correctness; Men are from Mars – difference; Difference revisited – corpus approaches; ‘Gay’ language