CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Ukolova, Iryna Ivanivna |
|---|---|
| Title | Specificities of the Slang Habalstvo in the Discourse of Ukrainian Homosexuals |
| Summary | In this work investigation has been carried out to reveal linguistic and circumstantial specificities of the slang habal’stvo that is used by gay men in order to index their feminine homosexual status within gay community of practice in the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv. In the research of a language variation in relation to sexuality the following hypothesis is developed: the Russian dialect habal’stvo is a communicative resource used by Ukrainian homosexuals that serves to index through language use the belonging of an individual to the gay community of practice. Habal’stvo is not a homogeneous language of homosexuals but a particular case of codeswitching that aims to signal man's feminine homosexual status. |
| Supervisor | Professor Erzsébet Barát |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/ukolova_iryna.pdf |
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