The focus on and analysis of metaphors used in speaking about sexual body parts, effluvia, acts, and accessories is the main strength of the present work .. Sex in Language is entertaining to read * Keith Allan, from the 'Foreword' * Clearly structured, well-argued and makes an important contribution to the sociolinguistic and pragmatic research field. It is certain to find a wide readership among scholars and students of languages, linguistics and social theory. I strongly recommend it. * Professor Andreas Mussolf, University of East Anglia, UK * The reader will be immersed in both the highest and most up-to-date academic theories on metaphor and euphemism as well as the actual (and sometimes inappropriate) language people use in internet forums on sex. It fills a gap in the literature on the language about sex and sexual relations. -- Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez, Lecturer in Philosophy of Language, University of Malaga, Spain Eliecer Crespo explores the metaphorical motivation of the language used to talk about such a pervasive, yet 'uncomfortable', topic as sex, and does so with a scholarly rigor highly commendable. The book offers an exhaustive discussion on the metaphorical motivation of the euphemistic and dysphemistic strategies real people use to discuss sex in real interaction. By combining insights and methods from such diverse approaches as discourse analysis, cognitive metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, appraisal theory and pragmatics, Crespo goes beyond the lexical approach too often adopted in research on the figurative motivation of taboo-induced expressions and avoidance strategies to provide a full account of the (inter)personal, pragmatic, and socio-cultural dimension of metaphor and its heuristic role to deal with one of the most basic --and, therefore, unavoidable-- domains of human experience. -- María del Rosario Caballero Rodríguez, Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
