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camp talk

French translation: le style camp/l'humour gay


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English term or phrase:camp talk
French translation:le style camp/l'humour gay
Entered by: Stéphanie Soudais
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16:07 Mar 4, 2008
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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: camp talk
For example, the verbal style known as camp is an interactional space that gay men, in particular, have developed for both defensive purposes and for reasons of bonding and solidarity with other queers
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Local time: 01:37
le style camp/l'humour gay
Explanation:
Le style " camp " est humoristique et joue la carte de l’auto-derision et du décalé pour désamorcer des situations tragiques
http://queerlinguistick.canalblog.com/archives/2006/07/02/22...

Cherry Grove est un lieu fréquenté par des gais depuis les années 1930 et plus récemment par des lesbiennes, un haut lieu de production culturelle, où ont été créées depuis plusieurs années des pièces de théâtre faisant appel à l’humour gai - camp.
http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=1052
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Local time: 07:37
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3 +5le style camp/l'humour gay
Stéphanie Soudais
3langage/parler efféminé
sophieb


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
le style camp/l'humour gay


Explanation:
Le style " camp " est humoristique et joue la carte de l’auto-derision et du décalé pour désamorcer des situations tragiques
http://queerlinguistick.canalblog.com/archives/2006/07/02/22...

Cherry Grove est un lieu fréquenté par des gais depuis les années 1930 et plus récemment par des lesbiennes, un haut lieu de production culturelle, où ont été créées depuis plusieurs années des pièces de théâtre faisant appel à l’humour gai - camp.
http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=1052

Stéphanie Soudais
France
Local time: 07:37
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 61
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Catherine Johnstone
30 mins

agree  Tony M
50 mins

agree  Salima Post
3 hrs

agree  Najib Aloui
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agree  swanda
5 hrs
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
langage/parler efféminé


Explanation:
c'est la définition proposée par mon dico, avec théâtral, cabotin.

http://lal.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/3/240

www.urbandictionary.com

Camp talk and citationality: a queer take on 'authentic' and 'represented' utterance = Le parler efféminé et la citationalité : Enoncé authentique et représenté relevé chez un homosexuel
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13841988

sophieb
France
Local time: 07:37
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: I think to refer to 'camp' as merely 'efféminé' diminishes it significantly; this sounds to me like a dictionary-based mis-translation (since camp describing a person often /is/ translated as efféminé)
46 mins
  -> oui, c'est sûrement réducteur au vu de tout ce que "camp" peut représenter.
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Mar 18, 2008 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
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