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Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities.

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Acknowledgements Note on Translations and Transcriptions Introduction Israel, Zionism and Sexual Subjectivity Language and Mechanisms of Identification The Politics of Prosody Discourses of Sexuality Conclusion Notes References Index

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EREZ LEVON is Lecturer in Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research examines the interaction of language, gender, sexuality and nationalism in the United States and Israel, and has been published in journals such as Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguistics.

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