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Author : M. Ljung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230292372
This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the history of swearing from its first known appearance in Ancient Egypt to the present day.
Author : Nico Nassenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501511203
While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, this contribution redirects the necessary focus onto a sociolinguistics of swearing that puts transgressive practices in non-Western languages into the focus. The transdisciplinary volume contains innovative case studies that address swearing and cursing in parts of the world characterized by consequences of colonialism and increasingly debated inequalities. Turning away from more conventional and established methodologies and theoretical approaches, the book envisages to address transgressive linguistic practices, performances and contexts in Africa, Asia, America and Europe –including individuals' creativity, subversive power and agency. Due to its interdisciplinary and non-mainstream focus, this volume is an essential addition to the field of studies.
Author : Brooke Meraw
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2016
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Author : Julian Sharman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This fun little book, as one can guess from the title, covers the history of swearing worldwide. Although it is not an in-depth look, it includes amusing anecdotes from Ancient Greece, English Medieval, and France, amongst many others. The book also discusses swear words that were common in the era and region as well as their origins.
Author : Emma Byrne
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393356656
Entertaining and thought-provoking...Byrne's enthusiasm for her esoteric subject is contagious, damn it. --Melissa Dahl, New York Times Book Review
Author : Geoffrey Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317476786
This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties, such as Australian, Canadian, South African, and Caribbean English are also covered. 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 and the social context in which it found expression. Categories include blasphemy, obscenity, profanity, the categorization of women and races, and modal varieties, such as the ritual insults of Renaissance "flyting" and modern "sounding" or "playing the dozens." Entries cover the historical dimension of the language, from Anglo-Saxon heroic oaths and the surprising power of medieval profanity, to the strict censorship of the Renaissance and the vibrant, modern language of the streets. Social factors, such as stereotyping, xenophobia, and the dynamics of ethnic slurs, as well as age and gender differences in swearing are also addressed, along with the major taboo words and the complex and changing nature of religious, sexual, and racial taboos.
Author : Benjamin Bergen
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0465060919
Holy, fucking, shit, nigger -- What makes a four-letter word? -- One finger is worth a thousand words -- The holy priest with the vulgar tongue -- The day the Pope dropped the c-bomb -- Fucking grammar -- How cock lost its feathers -- Little Samoan potty mouths -- Fragile little minds -- The $100,000 word -- The paradox of profanity -- Epilogue: What screwed the mooch?.
Author : Kristy Beers Fägersten
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265003
Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship. Rigorous, scholarly investigation of the practice of swearing acknowledges its social and cultural significance, and allows us to discover and better understand the historical, psychological, sociological, and linguistic aspects (among others) of swearwords and swearword usage. The present volume brings together a range of themes and issues central to the existing knowledge of swearing and considers these in two key ‘new’ arenas, that is, in languages other than English, and/or in contexts and media other than spoken interaction. Many of the chapters analysed are based on large and robust collections of data, such as corpora or questionnaire responses, which allow for patterns of swearing to emerge. In other chapters, personally observed instances of swearing comprise the focus, allowing for a close analysis of the relationship between sociolinguistic context and pragmatic function. In each chapter, the cultural aspects of swearing are considered, ultimately affirming the importance of the study of swearing, and further establishing the legitimacy of swearing as a target of research.
Author : Timothy Jay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027274053
This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes, semantics, and offensiveness. Censorship, language content of motion pictures, First-Amendment fighting words, sexual harassment, obscene phone calls, and cursing at public schools are analyzed and related to sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic data. Many tables of word-by-word data provide empirical evidence of frequency of occurrence, degree of offensiveness, gender of speaker and age of speaker influences on obscene language usage in America. A "must" for language reference collections.
Author : Kristy Beers Fägersten
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443838209
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 offers a solution to the controversial issue of defining swear words and swearing by limiting the investigation to the core set of words most common to previous swearing studies. This specific focus results in accurate depictions of contextualized swearing utterances. Precise frequency counts are thus enabled which, along with offensiveness ratings of contextualized and non-contextualized swearing, enable a clarification of The Swearing Paradox, referring to the phenomenon of frequently used swear words also being those which traditionally are judged to be the most offensive. The book revisits the relationship between gender and swear word usage, but considers the distribution based on the core subset of swear words, revealing similarities where others have claimed differences. Significantly, Who’s Swearing Now? considers the aspect of race with regards to swear word usage, and reveals behavioral differences between, for example, White and African American males and females with regards to word preferences, as well as social impetuses for and effects of swearing. Questionnaire and interview data supplement the swearing utterances, revealing participants’ individual credos about their own use or non-use of swear words and, interestingly, about others’ allowed or ideally prohibited use of swear words. These sets of data present thought-provoking and often entertaining statements regarding the unwritten set of rules governing swearing behavior. Who’s Swearing Now? concludes with close analyses of four recent and highly publicized incidences of public swear word usage, considered in light of the spontaneous swearing utterances, speaker and addressee variables such as gender, race and age, and perceptions of offensiveness and propriety