Research Catalog

Title

Metasex : the discourse of intimacy and transgression / Anne Storch, Nico Nassenstein.

Author

Storch, Anne

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Nassenstein, Nico

Description

vi, 132 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"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 ("food porn") 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"--

Series Statement

Culture and language use (CLU) : studies in anthropological linguistics ; volume 22

Uniform Title

Culture and language use ; v.22.

Subject

• Language and sex > Developing countries
• Sexting > Developing countries
• Advertising > Food > Developing countries
• Language and culture > Developing countries
• Discourse analysis > Developing countries
• Pragmatics
• Advertising > Food
• Discourse analysis
• Language and culture
• Language and sex
• Sexting
• Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Dick pics -- Foodporn -- Bonding -- Understanding metapragmatic discourses through social bonding, foodporn and dick pic perspectives : an afterword.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-10248

ISBN

• 9789027207616
• 9027207615

LCCN

2020027502

OCLC

1183400592

Author

Storch, Anne, author.

Title

Metasex : the discourse of intimacy and transgression / Anne Storch, Nico Nassenstein.

Publisher

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Culture and language use (CLU) : studies in anthropological linguistics ; volume 22

Culture and language use ; v.22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Nassenstein, Nico, author.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-10248