Language and Sexual Identity demonstrates how gay men and lesbians employ language for the creation of a situated identity. Real linguistic data is analysed using textual analysis, spoken language analysis and corpus linguistic approaches. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of data and linguistic analysis and the authors relate their findings to sociolinguistic theories of communities of practice.

ELIZABETH MORRISH is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University, UK.