Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men

Autorentext
Paul Baker is a research associate at the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University. His research interests include endangered and minority languages, language and sexualities and corpus based approached to language engineering. He has published papers in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Literary and Linguistics Computing and Computer Assisted Language Learning. He is a committee member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.

Klappentext
This book examines the ways in which Polari - a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men - was used in order to construct 'gay identities' in the UK over the past fifty years.

Inhalt
1. Introduction2. Historical Origins3. Uses and Abuses4. Julian and Sandy5. Polari as a Language System6. The Death of Polari7. The Revival of Polari?8. Dictionary

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