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Who's Swearing Now? represents an investigation of how people actually swear, illustrated by a collection of over 500 spontaneous swearing utterances along with their social and linguistic contexts. The book features a focus on the use of eight swear words: ass, bitch, cunt, damn, dick, fuck, hell, shit and their possible inflections or derivations, e.g., asshole or motherfucker, offering a solution to the controversial issue of defining swear words and swearing by limiting the investigation ...
Swearing --- Slang --- Argot --- Colloquial language --- Cant --- Obscene words --- Profanity --- Social aspects. --- English language Slang --- English language
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Jurons --- Swearing --- Vloeken --- Invective --- Invectives --- Profanity --- Cant --- Frans. --- Français (Langue) --- French language --- Scheldwoorden. --- Schimpfwort. --- Swearing. --- Argot --- Slang --- Slang. --- Französisch. --- Français (Langue) --- Dictionaries --- Dictionnaires --- -Profanity --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- -Dictionaries --- -Langue d'oïl --- -Slang
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A humorous and lively history of the English language in four letters, containing original research into swearing and how Western culture's taboo words have evolved.
English language --- Swearing --- Profanity --- Cant --- Germanic languages --- History. --- Obscene words --- Slang --- Social aspects --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Historical linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- History
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This volume excavates the biblical and classical sources behind three early modern treatises that denounce the numerous sins of the tongue that cause damage in the Elizabethan society.
English literature --- English language --- Swearing --- Blessing and cursing --- Cursing and blessing --- Execration --- Imprecation --- Malediction --- Incantations --- Profanity --- Cant --- Germanic languages --- History and criticism. --- Obscene words --- History.
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Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events—from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video—indicate that controversy concerning blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts can be produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again.In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars examines the profound difficulties blasphemy raises for modern societies. Contributors examine how the sacred is formed and maintained, how sacrilegious expression is conceived and regulated, and how the resulting conflicts resist easy adjudication. Their studies range across art, history, politics, law, literature, and theology. Because of the global nature of the problem, the volume's approach is comparative, examining blasphemy across cultural and geopolitical boundaries.
Blasphemy --- Church of England -- Clergy --- Swearing --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Profanity --- Cant --- Freedom of speech --- Libel and slander --- Offenses against religion --- E-books --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- Swearing. --- Blasphemy. --- apostasy. --- art. --- blasphemy. --- cultural studies. --- danish newspaper cartoons. --- defamation. --- digital media. --- electronic media. --- geopolitical studies. --- history. --- human rights. --- interdisciplinary. --- international law. --- islam. --- jacksonian america. --- law. --- literature. --- muslim. --- philip roth. --- political history. --- political theology. --- politics. --- pornography. --- profane images. --- profane texts. --- profanity. --- prophet mohammed. --- religion. --- sacred texts. --- sacred. --- sacrilege. --- sacrilegious expression. --- satire. --- secular democracies. --- sociology. --- theology. --- transnational. --- violence.
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Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad language. Drawing on a variety of methodologies including historical research and corpus linguistics, and a range of data such as corpora, dramatic texts, early modern newsbooks and television, Tony McEnery takes a socio-histo
Sociolinguistics --- Historical linguistics --- English language --- Dialectology --- obscene woorden. --- scheldwoorden. --- slang. --- vloeken. --- Corpus linguistics. --- Corpuslinguïstiek. --- Engelse taal --- Swearing --- Power (Social sciences) --- Words, Obscene --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Profanity --- Cant --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Obscene words. --- Slang. --- Obscene words --- English --- Slang --- English language Slang --- Germanic languages --- English language Obscene words
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Covering the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language, this encyclopedia emphasises on American and British English. A-Z entries cover the full range of swearing and foul language in English, including fascinating details on the history and origins of each term.
Engelse taal --- Obscene woorden --- Woordenboeken. --- Scheldwoorden --- Slang --- Vloeken --- 802.0 --- 820 --- 820 Engelse literatuur --- Engelse literatuur --- 802.0 Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- English language --- Blessing and cursing --- Invective --- Swearing --- Anglais (Langue) --- Bénédiction et malédiction --- Invectives --- Jurons --- Obscene words --- Dictionaries. --- Mots obscènes --- Dictionnaires --- Argot --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Profanity --- Cant --- Abuse, Verbal --- Insults --- Insults, Verbal --- Verbal abuse --- Vituperation --- Satire --- Germanic languages --- Cursing and blessing --- Execration --- Imprecation --- Malediction --- Incantations --- 820 English literature. Literature in English --- English literature. Literature in English --- Language and languages
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A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960's youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950's. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both groups were involved in an unequal but heroic fight to produce meaning and their own cultural forms in the face of a larger society dominated by the capitalist media and commercialism. They were pioneers of cultural experimentation, the self-construction of identity, and the curating of the self, which, in different ways, have become so widespread today. In Profane Culture, Paul Willis develops an important and still very contemporary theory and methodology for understanding the constructions of lived and popular culture. His new preface discusses the ties between the cultural moment explored in the book and today.
Hippies --- Motorcyclists --- Popular culture --- Subculture --- Flower children --- Subcultures --- Bikers (Motorcyclists) --- Motorcycle drivers --- Motorcycle operators --- Motorcycle owners --- Motorcycle riders --- Riders, Motorcycle --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Counterculture --- Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Social groups --- Motor vehicle drivers --- Hippies - England --- Motorcyclists - England --- Popular culture - England --- Subculture - England --- 1950s. --- 1960s. --- bike culture. --- commodities. --- consciousness. --- control agencies. --- cultural development. --- cultural items. --- cultural politics. --- deaths. --- dialectic relationship. --- drug effects. --- drug experiences. --- drugs. --- expanded awareness. --- hippies. --- hippy culture. --- hippy identity. --- hippy life-style. --- hippy scene. --- identity. --- masculinity. --- mechanical skill. --- middle class. --- modern society. --- modern technology. --- mods. --- motor-bike boys. --- motor-bike club. --- motor-bike. --- motor-cycle. --- motorcyclist. --- mysticism. --- pop music. --- profanity. --- progressive music. --- progressive pop music. --- rock 'n' roll. --- spirituality. --- time. --- underprivileged groups. --- working class. --- youth culture.
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Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.
Taboo, Linguistic --- Politeness (Linguistics) --- Jargon (Terminology) --- Swearing --- Euphemism --- 800.862 --- Slang. Vulgair taalgebruik --- Euphemism. --- Swearing. --- Taboo, Linguistic. --- Politieke correctheid (linguïstiek) --- Taal en censuur --- Taboe --- Vloeken (linguïstiek) --- eufemismen --- Politieke correctheid (linguïstiek). --- Taal en censuur. --- Vloeken (linguïstiek). --- eufemismen. --- slang. --- linguïstiek. --- Jargon (Terminology). --- Politeness (Linguistics). --- Censorship --- Political correctness --- Linguistic taboo --- Ineffable, The --- Taboo --- Profanity --- Cant --- Correctness, Political --- PC (Political correctness) --- P.C. (Political correctness) --- Ideology --- Courtesy (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Buzzwords --- Gobbledygook --- Slang --- Terms and phrases --- Figures of speech --- Semantics --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Law and legislation --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Sociolinguistics --- Pragmatics --- Censorship. --- Political correctness. --- Etiquette. --- Taal en talen --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Eufemismen. --- Slang. --- Linguïstiek.
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