At long last, a chapter I co-authored with Olga Ivanova (who was several years ago now my doctoral student at UCLA in Applied Linguistics), “Religious Speech and Silence about Sexuality” has appeared in the online version of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality, edited by Kira Hall and Rusty Barrett.

In this chapter, we explore silence about sexuality in religious communities, focusing on sexuality as religious taboo that necessitates silence and on innovative ways to talk about sex through uses of humor, indirect speech, vagueness, and euphemism. With bonus Popobawa data.

I’m not sure how long this will work, but the publisher provided temporary login for free access: Username: OUPAccess601 / Password: Deacon588