Overview

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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Author:   Keith Harvey ,  Celia Shalom
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780415136921

ISBN 10:   041513692
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   14 August 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Part I Words 1 METAPHORS OF DESIRE 2 KISSING AND CUDDLING: THE RECIPROCITY OF ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY 3 ‘EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER’: GAY MEN, STRAIGHT MEN AND A PROBLEM OF LEXICAL CHOICE Part II Narratives 4 THE ORGANISATION OF NARRATIVES OF DESIRE: A STUDY OF FIRST-PERSON EROTIC FANTASIES 5 ‘AN EXPLOSION DEEP INSIDE HER’: WOMEN’S DESIRE AND POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION 6 ‘YOU WOULD IF YOU LOVED ME’: LANGUAGE AND DESIRE IN THE TEEN NOVEL Part III Voices 7 ‘I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU’: LOVE AND DESIRE ON THE TELEPHONE 8 ‘BUNNIKINS, I LOVE YOU SNUGLY IN YOUR WARREN’: VOICES FROM SUBTERRANEAN CULTURES OF LOVE 9 THAT GREAT SUPERMARKET OF DESIRE: ATTRIBUTES OF THE DESIRED OTHER IN PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS 10 SPEAKING ITS NAME: THE POETIC EXPRESSION OF GAY MALE DESIRE 11 DISCURSIVE CATEGORIES AND DESIRE: FEMINISTS NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS

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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.

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.. <br>-William Leap, American University, Washington, D.C. <br>

Author Information

Keith Harvey is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. Celia Shalom is a lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics in the English Language Studies Unit at the University of Liverpool.

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