Metasex: The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression (Culture and Language Use, 22, Band 22) - Hardcover

Storch, Anne; Nassenstein, Nico

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027207615 ISBN 13: 9789027207616

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global North, this book offers a more holistic approach by discussing Southern concepts of body parts, their conceptualization and mediatization (“dick pics”), the interconnectedness of food and sex and its sensualization (“foodporn”) as well as processes of social cohesion around sex, sociability and conviviality (“bonding”). Based on an anthropological linguistic perspective, the authors analyze metasex practices from Nigeria, DR Congo, Uganda, the Mediterranean, and numerous other contexts. Africanist Agnes Brühwiler’s afterword on sex (talk) in Tanzania rounds off the various fresh insights this study offers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9027207615
• ISBN 13: 9789027207616
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132
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