Levon, Erez (2012). The voice of others: Identity, alterity and gender normativity among gay men in Israel. Language in society, 41(2), pp. 187-211. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0047404512000048
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This article presents an analysis of a slang variety, called oxtšit, as it is described and used by a cohort of gay men in Israel. Unlike many previous analyses of gay slang, I argue that themen described do not use the variety to help construct and affirm an alternative gay identity, but rather that they use it as a form of in-group mockery through which normative and nonnormative articulations of Israeli gay male sexuality are delineated. It is suggested that this discussion has implications for sociolinguistic understandings of “groupness” more broadly, and particularly the relationship between macro-level social categories (like “gay”) and individual lived experience.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Levon, Erez |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 400 Language 400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages |
ISSN: |
0047-4045 |
Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Erez Levon |
Date Deposited: |
11 Jun 2021 15:54 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:47 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1017/S0047404512000048 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.152319 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152319 |
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