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From gay language to normative discourse: a diachronic corpus analysis of Lavender Linguistics conference abstracts 1994–2012

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From gay language to normative discourse: a diachronic corpus analysis of Lavender Linguistics conference abstracts 1994–2012. / Baker, Paul.
In: Journal of Language and Sexuality, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2013, p. 179-205.

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