Sexuality

[[Polari:[[

[[Secret language never committed to print, used by homosexual men too avoid detection and recrimination.[[

]]Halliday:]]

]]Viewed it as an anti-language which described how stigmatised subcultures develop language that helps them to reconstruct reality according to their own views.]]

}}Lakoff:}}

}}Compares gay male speech traits to those of women and argues that gay men consciously and deliberately imitate these traits.}}

{{Baker:{{

{{Language characterised by acronyms, play on words, double meanings and lexis used that is only understood by the gay community.{{

<<Leap:<<

<<LGBT community communicate with each other in other ways that are different from the linguistic practices on non-lesbian / gay identified persons.<<

[[Lavender language:[[

[[Special dialect and vocabulary of the language of the gay community.[[