Brospeak

In this respect, the term is not alone. "Epic" belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. Élite brospeak holds that people working ably in offices on William Street or Bryant Street are "killing it" or "crushing it."

Almost all employees attend some version of discrimination and harassment-awareness training, so how is it that the bro speak still exists at all? With only 10% of female professionals on the trading floor and only 16% of senior executives being female (at all banks plus financial instruments), it's unlikely that the few women at that level even want to discuss it.

The script — heavy on the brospeak — was co-written by David Gordon Green, who has made his fair share of dramas but may be better known for Stoner buddy comedies like "Pineapple Express" and HBO's "Eastbound and Down."

"A'ight," he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates. "That sounds like it could be tight."

After defining stance and reviewing ways in which it has been used in studies of language and sexuality, the chapter analyzes representations of two sexual identity registers: a "gay voice" homosexual identity and a "brospeak" heterosexual identity.