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Synopsis
This collection explores the pressures exerted upon language in the expression of romantic and sexual desire. Simultaneously, it reveals the ways in which language itself exerts its own constraints on the subject's capacity to express desire. The contributors, while using the approaches and methods of empirical linguistics, engage directly with issues of relevance in gender studies. The book examines: language used to mediate romantic and sexual desire; language used by the media to represent intimacy and desire; attitudes and assumptions about romantic and sexual desire embodied in English; and the implications for the construction of romantic sexual identity.
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"Language and Desire is a unique and fascinating collection which explores how people use word-choice, narrative and voice to create a language of sexual desire.."
-William Leap, American University, Washington, D.C.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0415136911
- ISBN 13 9780415136914
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
- EditorHarvey Keith, Shalom Celia
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