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.
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Paul Baker is a research associate at the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University. His research interests include endangered and minority languages, language and sexualities and corpus based approached to language engineering. He has published papers in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Literary and Linguistics Computing and Computer Assisted Language Learning. He is a committee member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.
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The above paragraph is written in Polari - put simply, a secret language mainly used by gay men and lesbians, in London and other UK cities with an established gay subculture, in the first 70 or so years of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay heritage, language suicide, gay language, homosexual slang, gay slang, gay subculture, rhyming slang, camp language, positive politeness, gay identity, language death, language variety, sea queen, linguistic items, gay identities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Round the Horne, West End, East End, Barry Took, Kenneth Williams, Quentin Crisp, Kenneth Horne, High Polari, Radio Collection, Second World War, John Inman, Are You Being Served, Peter Burton, Bona Pets, Larry Grayson, New York, Old Compton Street, Sexual Offences Act, Alan Turing, Bona Promotions, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Home, Michael James, Piccadilly Circus, Sandy Wilson New!
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The above paragraph is written in Polari - put simply, a secret language mainly used by gay men and lesbians, in London and other UK cities with an established gay subculture, in the first 70 or so years of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gay heritage, language suicide, gay language, homosexual slang, gay slang, gay subculture, rhyming slang, camp language, positive politeness, gay identity, language death, language variety, sea queen, linguistic items, gay identities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Round the Horne, West End, East End, Barry Took, Kenneth Williams, Quentin Crisp, Kenneth Horne, High Polari, Radio Collection, Second World War, John Inman, Are You Being Served, Peter Burton, Bona Pets, Larry Grayson, New York, Old Compton Street, Sexual Offences Act, Alan Turing, Bona Promotions, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Home, Michael James, Piccadilly Circus, Sandy Wilson New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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