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William Leap

Anthropology

#1751

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#2272

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#749

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William Leap

Communications

#8481

World Rank

#11532

Historical Rank

#3752

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Linguistics

#1500

World Rank

#1893

Historical Rank

#382

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William Leap's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William Leap is an emeritus professor of anthropology at American University and an affiliate professor in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University . He works in the overlapping fields of language and sexuality studies and queer linguistics, and queer historical linguistics.

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William Leap's Published Works

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Public sex, gay space (1999) (98)
Word's Out: Gay Men's English (1996) (89)
Introducing Sociolinguistics (2nd Edition) (2009) (89)
Speaking in queer tongues : globalization and gay language (2004) (67)
American Indian English (1993) (65)
Beyond the lavender lexicon : authenticity, imagination, and appropriation in lesbian and gay languages (1995) (65)
Out in the field : reflections of lesbian and gay anthropolgists (1996) (50)
Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology (2002) (34)
Launching a new phase in language and sexuality studies (2012) (27)
Pathways and Barriers to Indian Language Literacy‐building on the Northern Ute Reservation (1991) (20)
Queer linguistics, sexuality, and discourse analysis (2011) (17)
Homophobia as Moral Geography (2011) (17)
Language and Gendered Modernity (2008) (17)
American Indian Language Maintenance (1981) (16)
Queer Linguistics as Critical Discourse Analysis (2015) (16)
Queering the Disaster: A Presidential Session (2007) (16)
Out in public : reinventing lesbian/gay anthropology in a globalizing world (2009) (16)
Commentary II: Queering language and normativity (2013) (15)
Language, Gay Pornography, and Audience Reception (2011) (14)
Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DC (2009) (14)
Globalization and Gay Language (2010) (14)
Indian Language Renewal: Applied Linguistics and American Indian Language Renewal: Introductory Comments (1988) (13)
Language Renewal among American Indian Tribes: Issues, Problems, and Prospects. (1982) (13)
Ehrlich, Susan, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Holmes, Janet (eds). 2014. The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality (Second Edition). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (2015) (13)
Sex Talk: Language, Desire, Identity and Beyond (2007) (13)
Language Before Stonewall (2020) (12)
The Invisible Culture: Communication in Classroom and Community on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Susan Urmston Philips (1987) (11)
Aids, linguistics, and the study of non‐neutral discourse (1991) (10)
Language Matters: An Introduction (2011) (9)
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Lesbian and Gay Town (1994) (9)
ON GRAMMATICALITY IN NATIVE AMERICAN ENGLISH: THE EVIDENCE FROM ISLETA (1974) (9)
Introducing the special issue (2011) (8)
Out in the Field: Reflections of Gay and Lesbian Anthropologists (1998) (7)
Dimensions of Math Avoidance among American Indian Elementary School Students. Final Report. (1982) (7)
Out in Public (2009) (7)
The Sex Machine, the Full-Body Tattoo, and the Hermaphrodite (2014) (6)
Introduction: Anthropology, sexuality, and AIDS (1991) (5)
Representation, Subjectivity and Ethics in Urban Gay Ethnography (1996) (5)
American Indian Language Education. (1981) (5)
Language/sexuality/affect: Introducing the special issue (2018) (4)
AMERICAN INDIAN ENGLISH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION (1986) (4)
English and American Indian Languages (1982) (3)
Rethinking language and gender: recent steps toward a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered linguistics (1998) (3)
Word's Out (1996) (2)
Reading Andrew Tucker's Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction (2010) (2)
AIDS on the Planet: The Plural Voices of Anthropology (1990) (2)
Gay Men, Language, and AIDS (2010) (2)
Written Ute English: Texture, Construction, and Point of View. (1989) (2)
Does Indian Math (Still) Exist (1981) (2)
Introduction: Applying Anthropology In HIV/AIDS Research (1993) (1)
“Marriage,”“Family” and Same‐Sex Marriage (2004) (1)
Language, Sexuality and the Suspension of Taboo: Lessons from “Gay English” (2016) (1)
Language, Sexuality, Heteroglossia, and Intersectionality (2015) (1)
Moving into the next ten years (2021) (1)
Studying a Not-so-Secret “Secret Code” (2019) (1)
Puebloan Meanings of "Pueblo" (1985) (1)
Language, Sexuality, History (2018) (1)
Diane E. GOLDSTEIN (ed.), Talking Aids: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Research and Policy Papers n 12, Institute of Social and Economie Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991, p. 145, ISSN 0828-6868) (1993) (0)
Allah made us: sexual outlaws in an Islamic African city – By Rudolf Pell Gaudio (2010) (0)
ON GRAMMATICALITY IN NATIVE AMERICAN ENGLISH: THE EVIDENCE FROM ISLETA (1974) (0)
Discretion (2019) (0)
Conclusions (2019) (0)
Learning a Language of Sexuality (2019) (0)
Foreword On Being Different: An Appreciation (2020) (0)
The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States by Carol J. Greenhouse. (2014) (0)
Language, Sexuality and the Suspension of Taboo (2015) (0)
Circulations, Accumulations, and Superdiversity (2019) (0)
Prospects for American Indian English Linguistics Research. Papers in Southwest English 1: Research Techniques and Prospects. (1975) (0)
Queer Language Matters (2015) (0)
Guide to Further Reading (2012) (0)
The Time of AIDS: Social Analysis, Theory and Method. Gilbert Herdt and Shirley Lindenbaum (1992) (0)
Tribally Controlled Culture Change: The Northern Ute Language Renewal Project (2019) (0)
Lavender Linguistics@@@Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages@@@Word's out: Gay Men's English (1997) (0)
Liminal Gender Categories: Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History. Gilbert Herdt, ed (1995) (0)
William Leap's Reflections upon Retirement (2018) (0)
Surveillance (2019) (0)
Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same‐Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men. Carlos Ulises Decena. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. xiii + 309 pp. (2013) (0)
Toward an Ethnography of Outreach: Some Reactions and Responses (1991) (0)
Remarks at the 1994 AAA Plenary Session on Human Rights (1995) (0)
Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World. Katherine McFarland Bruce. New York: New York University Press, 2016. 320 pp. (2019) (0)

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