Keith Harvey is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. Celia Shalom is a lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics in the English Language Studies Unit at the University of Liverpool.

'A stimulating complement to more traditional gender linguistics. Language and Desire can be productively utilised as a supplementary reader by students undertaking courses in language oriented gender/sexuality studies...' - Journal of Sociolinguistics

• INTRODUCTION Part I Words 1 METAPHORS OF DESIRE 2 KISSING AND CUDDLING: THE RECIPROCITY OF ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY 3 ‘EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER’: GAY MEN, STRAIGHT MEN AND A PROBLEM OF LEXICAL CHOICE Part II Narratives 4 THE ORGANISATION OF NARRATIVES OF DESIRE: A STUDY OF FIRST-PERSON EROTIC FANTASIES 5 ‘AN EXPLOSION DEEP INSIDE HER’: WOMEN’S DESIRE AND POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION 6 ‘YOU WOULD IF YOU LOVED ME’: LANGUAGE AND DESIRE IN THE TEEN NOVEL Part III Voices 7 ‘I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU’: LOVE AND DESIRE ON THE TELEPHONE 8 ‘BUNNIKINS, I LOVE YOU SNUGLY IN YOUR WARREN’: VOICES FROM SUBTERRANEAN CULTURES OF LOVE 9 THAT GREAT SUPERMARKET OF DESIRE: ATTRIBUTES OF THE DESIRED OTHER IN PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS 10 SPEAKING ITS NAME: THE POETIC EXPRESSION OF GAY MALE DESIRE 11 DISCURSIVE CATEGORIES AND DESIRE: FEMINISTS NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS

Keith Harvey is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. Celia Shalom is a lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics in the English Language Studies Unit at the University of Liverpool.

'A stimulating complement to more traditional gender linguistics. Language and Desire can be productively utilised as a supplementary reader by students undertaking courses in language oriented gender/sexuality studies...' - Journal of Sociolinguistics

• INTRODUCTION Part I Words 1 METAPHORS OF DESIRE 2 KISSING AND CUDDLING: THE RECIPROCITY OF ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY 3 ‘EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER’: GAY MEN, STRAIGHT MEN AND A PROBLEM OF LEXICAL CHOICE Part II Narratives 4 THE ORGANISATION OF NARRATIVES OF DESIRE: A STUDY OF FIRST-PERSON EROTIC FANTASIES 5 ‘AN EXPLOSION DEEP INSIDE HER’: WOMEN’S DESIRE AND POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION 6 ‘YOU WOULD IF YOU LOVED ME’: LANGUAGE AND DESIRE IN THE TEEN NOVEL Part III Voices 7 ‘I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU’: LOVE AND DESIRE ON THE TELEPHONE 8 ‘BUNNIKINS, I LOVE YOU SNUGLY IN YOUR WARREN’: VOICES FROM SUBTERRANEAN CULTURES OF LOVE 9 THAT GREAT SUPERMARKET OF DESIRE: ATTRIBUTES OF THE DESIRED OTHER IN PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS 10 SPEAKING ITS NAME: THE POETIC EXPRESSION OF GAY MALE DESIRE 11 DISCURSIVE CATEGORIES AND DESIRE: FEMINISTS NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS

Keith Harvey is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of East Anglia. Celia Shalom is a lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics in the English Language Studies Unit at the University of Liverpool.

'A stimulating complement to more traditional gender linguistics. Language and Desire can be productively utilised as a supplementary reader by students undertaking courses in language oriented gender/sexuality studies...' - Journal of Sociolinguistics

• INTRODUCTION Part I Words 1 METAPHORS OF DESIRE 2 KISSING AND CUDDLING: THE RECIPROCITY OF ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY 3 ‘EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER’: GAY MEN, STRAIGHT MEN AND A PROBLEM OF LEXICAL CHOICE Part II Narratives 4 THE ORGANISATION OF NARRATIVES OF DESIRE: A STUDY OF FIRST-PERSON EROTIC FANTASIES 5 ‘AN EXPLOSION DEEP INSIDE HER’: WOMEN’S DESIRE AND POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION 6 ‘YOU WOULD IF YOU LOVED ME’: LANGUAGE AND DESIRE IN THE TEEN NOVEL Part III Voices 7 ‘I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU’: LOVE AND DESIRE ON THE TELEPHONE 8 ‘BUNNIKINS, I LOVE YOU SNUGLY IN YOUR WARREN’: VOICES FROM SUBTERRANEAN CULTURES OF LOVE 9 THAT GREAT SUPERMARKET OF DESIRE: ATTRIBUTES OF THE DESIRED OTHER IN PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS 10 SPEAKING ITS NAME: THE POETIC EXPRESSION OF GAY MALE DESIRE 11 DISCURSIVE CATEGORIES AND DESIRE: FEMINISTS NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS