Describing camp talk: Language/pragmatics/politics

Language and Literature

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 240-260

  Harvey, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Camp; Fiction; Gay; Inversion; Ludicrism; Paradox; Parody; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009763644     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394700000900303     Document Type: Article

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