Queerly Phrased

Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- "It's a Girl!": Bringing Performativity Back to Linguistics -- I: LIMINAL LEXICALITY -- 1. Two Lavender Issues for Linguists -- 2. The Elusive Bisexual: Social Categorization and Lexico-Semantic Change -- 3. Lexical Variation in the Deaf Community Relating to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs -- 4. The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence -- 5. Pots and Pans: Identification of Queer Japanese in Terms of Discrimination -- 6. Talking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech -- 7. Les Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Premodern France -- 8. Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love: Tribade, Lesbienne, Homosexuelle -- 9. Read my Lips: Clippyng and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century -- II: QUEERSPEAK -- 10. The "Homo-genius" Speech Community -- 11. Toward the Study of Lesbian Speech -- 12. Que(e)rying Friendship: Discourses of Resistance and the Construction of Gendered Subjectivity -- 13. "I Don't Speak Spritch": Locating Lesbian Language -- 14. Narrative Iconicity in Electronic-Mail Lesbian Coming-Out Stones -- 15. Deaf Identity, Lesbian Identity: Intersections in a Life Narrative -- 16. The Creation of Coherence in Coming-Out Stories -- 17. Performative Effect in Three Gay English Texts -- 18. Homophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse among College Students -- 19. "Falling Short of God's Ideal": Public Discourse about Lesbians and Gays -- III: LINGUISTIC GENDER-BENDING -- 20. Disloyal to Masculinity: Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity in French -- 21. Linguistic Gender Play among French Gays and Lesbians -- 22. Surrogate Phonology and Transsexual Faggotry: A Linguistic Analogy for Uncoupling Sexual Orientation from Gender Identity -- 23. The Gendering of the Gay Male Sex Class in Japan: A Case Study Based on Rasen No Sobyo -- 24. Not Talk