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
Language and the
Politics of Sexuality: Lesbians and Gays in Israel.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming (June 2010).
Sexual
subjectivities and narratives of belonging in Israel, in Zimman, L., J. Davis
& J. Raclaw (eds.) Queer excursions: New directions in language, gender
and sexuality research, in preparation.
Dimensions of style:
Context, politics and motivation in gay Israeli speech. Journal of Sociolinguistics 13: 29-58, 2009.
Définitions et méthodes d’approche des minorités sexuelles, in Laithier, S.
& V. Vilmain (eds.) L’Histoire des Minorités est-elle une Histoire
Marginale? Paris: Presse Universitaire de Paris, Sorbonne, 2008 [in
French].
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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Language
and Gender |
Bilingualism |
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Research
Methods in Linguistics |
History
of English |
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Introduction
to Sociolinguistic Variation |
Introduction
to Linguistics |
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Intermediate
Linguistics |
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Etymologies |