Gay Lingo in Great Britain and the Philippines. A Comparison of the Sociolects Polari and Swardspeak

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: As LGBTQ rights were not yet established in Western countries, queer people had to fear discrimination or even prosecution. To express their ‘unnormal’ sexual identities, gay subcultures were formed, and language varieties, known...