Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humour and tenderness.
A comprehensive guide to evaluating and buying this complex car, with pre-purchase and post-purchase advice, details of maintenance issues, driving... Læs mere
Describes the ways in which corpora can be utilised in sociolinguistic enquiry.
Paul Baker's personal history of the infamous anti-gay ‘Section 28’ law.
Queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics is brought together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.
By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also played an important role in equality movements as a form of protest or resistance.