Keith Allan, Kate Burridge

Forbidden Words

Taboo and the Censoring of Language

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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 in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521525640
• ISBN-10: 0521525640
• Artikelnr.: 20910562

Autorenporträt

Keith Allan is Reader in Linguistics and Convenor of the Linguistics Program at Monash University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Taboos and their origins; 2. Sweet talking and offensive language; 3. Bad language? Jargon, slang, swearing, insult; 4. The language of political correctness; 5. Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene; 6. Taboo, naming and addressing; 7. Sex and bodily effluvia; 8. Food and smell; 9. Disease, death and killing; 10. Taboo, censoring and the human brain.

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List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Taboos and their origins
2. Sweet talking and offensive language
3. Bad language? Jargon, slang, swearing and insult
4. The language of political correctness
5. Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene
6. Taboo, naming and addressing
7. Sex and bodily effluvia
8. Food and smell
9. Disease, death and killing
10. Taboo, censoring and the human brain
Notes
References
Index.

Rezensionen

' ... accessible and wide-ranging publication ... this is a thoroughly engaging and fascinating book, written with brio and humour.' Journal of Politeness Research