Language And Sexuality

Question 1

Heteronormative

Answer 1

A world view that promotes heterosexuality as the normal

Question 2

Heterosexism

Answer 2

Attitudes and bias in favor of opposite sex sexuality and relationships

Question 3

Sweden

Answer 3

Introduced a gender- neutral pronoun
Similar to English ‘ze’ and ‘thon’

Question 4

Polari

Answer 4

A coded form of language that allowed British gay men to speak public ally about their sexuality

Question 5

Support for polari

Answer 5

Layoff- gay male consciously and deliberately imitate women speech traits

Question 6

Lavender linguistics

Answer 6

Term used by linguistics to describe the study of language as it is used by LGBTQ speakers

Question 7

Bill Leap on LGBTQ speakers

Answer 7

Says the LGBTQ community communicate with each other differently to linguistic practises of non LGBTQ speakers

Question 8

Paul Bakers characteristics of LGBTQ speech

Answer 8

Acronyms
Plays on words
Double meanings
Range of Lexus that is only intended to be understood by the gay community

Question 9

Reasons for using polari

Answer 9

To exclude
As part of their identity