Lets Talk About Sex in High School: The TV Series Sex Education
Although sex has always been a controversial topic, in the last years the taboo surrounding sex and sexuality has progressively relaxed, which has led to the appearance of TV series in which sex plays a fundamental role. A good case in point is Sex Education, a comedy-drama series about teenagers’ s...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/40763 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.92.10rui https://hdl.handle.net/10578/40763 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Dysphemism Euphemism Metaphor Sex education Sexual taboo |
| Sumario: | Although sex has always been a controversial topic, in the last years the taboo surrounding sex and sexuality has progressively relaxed, which has led to the appearance of TV series in which sex plays a fundamental role. A good case in point is Sex Education, a comedy-drama series about teenagers’ sexual issues in the setting of sex-therapy sessions. This chapter’s main aim is to analyse how high school students talk about and conceptualise sexual topics in eight episodes of the series, considered here an instance of telecinematic discourse. The results reveal that the X-phemistic (i.e., euphemistic and dysphemistic) units teenagers use to talk about sex provide good evidence of their beliefs and value judgements related to sexuality |
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