Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men write by Paul Baker. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinerant groups, Polari was also a means of socialising, acting out camp performances and reconstructing a shared gay identity and worldview among its speakers. This book examines the ways in which Polari was used in order to construct 'gay identities', linking its evolution to the changing status of gay men and lesbians in the UK over the past fifty years.
Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men
Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men write by Paul Baker. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinerant groups, Polari was also a means of socialising, acting out camp performances and reconstructing a shared gay identity and worldview among its speakers. This book examines the ways in which Polari was used in order to construct 'gay identities', linking its evolution to the changing status of gay men and lesbians in the UK over the past fifty years.
Fabulosa!
Fabulosa! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fabulosa! write by Paul Baker. This book was released on 2020-07-24. Fabulosa! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year “Richly evocative and entertaining.”—Guardian “An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari bona!”—Attitude “Exuberant, richly detailed. . . . A delightful read.”—Tatler Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied—from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers’ slang—and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne (“Oh hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek!”). Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humor, and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline, and tells of its unlikely reemergence in the twenty-first century. With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, Fabulosa! is an essential document of recent history—a fascinating and fantastically readable account of this funny, filthy, and ingenious language.
Fantabulosa
Fantabulosa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantabulosa write by Paul Baker. This book was released on 2004-05-25. Fantabulosa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polari has been the secret language of gay men and women through the twentieth century. But more than a language, Polari is an attitude. From the prisons and music halls of Edwardian England to Kenneth Williams, American Gls in London and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Polari has been used to laugh, bitch, gossip and cruise. Like all slang, Polari users coined an ever-changing vocabulary. Derived from words used by criminals, circus artists, beggars and prostitutes, it also employed Italian, Yiddish, French, rhyming slang and backslang. Polari speakers camped up a storm, from West End chorus boys and office workers to East End sea-queens. Since gay liberation, lesbian and gay slang has become less a language of concealment than a language of specialization, though the tradition of camp remains. A carefully researched and entertaining read, Fantabulosa presents a lexicon of Polari and a more general dictionary of lesbian and gay slang. If you don't yet know what vada the bona cartes on the ommee ajax, parkering ninty, a Mexican nightmare or a nellyectomy mean, then this is the book for you.
Public Discourses of Gay Men
Public Discourses of Gay Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Discourses of Gay Men write by Paul Baker. This book was released on 2006-02. Public Discourses of Gay Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
