Online Sex Talk and the Social World

Chrystie Myketiak is Principal Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research investigates discourse and narratives in text and media with a focus on language use in relation to issues of power, identity, and inequality.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theorising Sexuality in Talk.- Chapter 3: Walford and Methods.- Chapter 4: Coding Spaces and Marking Practices.- Chapter 5: Sex Talk Intimacies.- Chapter 6: Automating Desire.- Chapter 7: Co-Constructing Desire.- Chapter 8: Sex Talk Futures.

“This book provides an accessible overview of the linguistic and discursive practices around sex, sexuality, and desire within an online community. It is an excellent resource for researchers and postgraduate students in disciplines such as linguistics and sociology who are interested in discourse analytic perspectives on language, gender, and sexuality in digitally mediated communication.” (Evelin Nikolova, Language in Society, Vol. 51 (3), 2022)“Chrystie Myketiak’s Online Sex Talk and the Social World skillfully demonstrates the utility of research in pragmatics and discourse analysis for understanding human sexuality. … Myketiak’s insights into patterns of interaction that imply sexual meanings will be of interest to researchers examining conversational structure and implicature even if their specific focus is not directly about sex or sexuality.” (Rusty Barrett, Corpus Pragmatics, July27, 2021)