The Language and Sexuality Reader

by Deborah Cameron, Don Kulick

Drawing on material from the fields of anthropology, communication studies, linguistics, medicine and psychology, this study begins by revealing the differences between homosexual and heterosexual language, then moves on to explore contemporary issues and

Genres: Linguistics

335 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2006

About the author

Deborah Cameron, is a feminist linguist, who holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University. She is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality.Cameron wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, published in 2007