{"title":"Gender variation in signs of sexual behaviour in Hong Kong Sign Language","authors":"M. X. Wei, Felix Sze, Aaron Wong","doi":"10.1075/APLV.17002.WEI","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This paper discusses possible gender variation in the signs of sexual behaviour in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). The data comes\n from a research project that aims at documenting and analyzing sex-related signs in this sign language for the sake of producing\n materials for sex education and interpreter training programs. Since sex is a highly taboo topic, euphemistic signs for the target\n concepts were collected and analyzed. This paper presents evidence that linguistic variation of neutral and euphemistic\n expressions of sex-related concepts exists in HKSL, and that gender plays a role in the choice of some but not all variants and\n their euphemistic counterparts.","PeriodicalId":29731,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Language Variation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2018-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asia-Pacific Language Variation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/APLV.17002.WEI","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper discusses possible gender variation in the signs of sexual behaviour in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL). The data comes
from a research project that aims at documenting and analyzing sex-related signs in this sign language for the sake of producing
materials for sex education and interpreter training programs. Since sex is a highly taboo topic, euphemistic signs for the target
concepts were collected and analyzed. This paper presents evidence that linguistic variation of neutral and euphemistic
expressions of sex-related concepts exists in HKSL, and that gender plays a role in the choice of some but not all variants and
their euphemistic counterparts.
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