Erez Levon
Lecturer in
Linguistics
School of
Languages, Linguistics and Film
Queen Mary,
University of London
Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS
t: +44 (0)20 7882 8435
f: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics; language, gender &
sexuality; language style and indexicality; language & nationalism; Israel
I am interested in the relationship between
language and identity (sexual, gender, ethnic, religious, national). My current
research examines the intersection of language, politics and gay/lesbian
sexuality in Israel. I am also interested in language and social meaning more
broadly, including the use of experimental methods to help understand how
listeners associate particular linguistic forms with specific identity
categories.
Selected Publications
The voice of others: Identity, alterity and gender normativity among gay men in Israel. Language in Society 41, forthcoming 2012.
Teasing apart to bring together: Gender and sexuality in variationist research. American Speech 86: 69-84, 2011.
Language and the
Politics of Sexuality: Lesbians and Gays in Israel.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Dimensions of style:
Context, politics and motivation in gay Israeli speech. Journal of
Sociolinguistics 13: 29-58, 2009.
Sexuality in
context: Variation and the sociolinguistic perception of identity. Language
in Society 36: 533-554, 2007.
Hearing
gay: Prosody, interpretation and the affective judgments of men’s speech. American Speech 81: 56-78, 2006.
Mosaic
identity and style: Phonological variation among Reform American Jews. Journal of Sociolinguistics 10: 185-205, 2006.
Teaching
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(Current) |
(Previous) |
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Sex,
Gender and Language |
Bilingualism |
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Language
and Ethnicity |
History
of English |
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Research
Methods in Linguistics |
Introduction
to Linguistics |
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Introduction
to Sociolinguistic Variation |
Intermediate
Linguistics |
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Language
in the UK |
Etymologies |
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Languages
of the World |