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Contest of Language Steven Vallas For many gay menThese essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional, academic, and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Specific essays apply this theme of the contest of language to the suppression,