By Deborah Cameron, Don Kulick
ISBN-10: 0521009693
ISBN-13: 9780521009690
This obtainable publication seems to be at how we speak about intercourse and why we speak about it the best way we do. Drawing on examples that variety from own advertisements to cellphone intercourse, sado-masochistic scenes to sexual attack trials, this paintings presents a transparent advent to the connection among language and sexuality. utilizing a huge definition of "sexuality", it encompasses not just concerns surrounding sexual orientation and id, but in addition questions on the discursive building of sexuality and the verbal expression of erotic hope.
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Indeed, without those codes we would not be able to identify particular experiences as ‘sexual’ in the first place. g. communicating orgasm) but also to the understanding of what it is that we are doing, which in turn exerts an influence on what we do. What we know or believe about sex is part of the baggage we bring to sex; and our knowledge does not come 15 16 Language and sexuality exclusively from firsthand experience: it is mediated by the discourse that circulates in our societies. At this point it may be helpful to say something about the potentially confusing term ‘discourse’, which is used in rather different ways by the two main groups of scholars whose ideas we draw on in this chapter: linguists and critical theorists.
T oh it was like there were some rumours going round our area about me and this kid. And like, he spreaded it – someone spreaded it all around the Mid school, all around this school. People just looking at me, I couldn’t hack it no more, and like I was d e you must have been really miserable. t oh no, not. I was really angry. I just wanted to take my anger out on anybody that come along really. d e sorry, what did you just say, Sarah? s no, I just said she was, she was upset and that. t I didn’t come to school for about three days cos I couldn’t face anybody.
Words in isolation are not the issue. It is in discourse – the use of language in specific contexts – that words acquire meaning. Whenever people argue about words, they are also arguing about the assumptions and values that have clustered around those words in the course of their history of being used. We cannot understand the significance of any word unless we attend closely to its relationship with other words, and to the discourse (indeed, the competing discourses) in which words are always embedded.
Language and Sexuality by Deborah Cameron, Don Kulick
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