Linguistic, emotional and content analyses of sexually explicit scenes in popular fiction

Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-159

  Whissell, Cynthia ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dictionary of Affect in Language; Popular fiction; Sex differences; Sexually explicit material; Textual analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; EROTISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LOVE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY;

EID: 0031661978     PISSN: 11884517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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