Rude Britannia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gorji, Mina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon's obscene outburst on 'I'm a Celebrity...' only provoked a handful of complaints - a muted reaction compared to the furore following his use of the f-word on television twenty-eight years earlier.

This timely and authoritative exploration of rudeness in modern English draws together experts from the academic world and the media - journalists, linguists, lexicographers and literary critics - and argues that rudeness is an important cultural phenomenon. Tightly edited with clear accessibly written pieces, the essays look at rudeness in:

• the media
• literature
• football chants
• street culture
• seaside postcards.

With contributions from media figures including Tom Paulin and leading media-friendly linguists Deborah Cameron and Lynda Mugglestone, Rude Britannia raises concerns about linguistic and social codes, standards of decency, what is considered taboo in the public realm, constructions of bawdy, class, race, power and British identity.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136009983
• Artikelnr.: 38452549

Autorenporträt

Mina Gorji is a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where her research interests include literary language and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of the forthcoming title John Clare and the Nature of Poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, Mina Gorji
Part 1 The vulgar tongue
Chapter 2 'The indefinable something', Lynda Mugglestone
Chapter 3 Poubellication, Valentine Cunningham
Chapter 4 Rude words, Tom Paulin
Part 2 British bawdy
Chapter 5 Orwell's dirty postcards, David Pascoe
Chapter 6 How Vizmade Britain ruder, Theo Tait
Chapter 7 Bosom of the nation, Rebecca Loncraine
Part 3 The limits of rudeness
Chapter 8 When Saturday comes, Crowley Tony
Chapter 9 Redefining rudeness, Deborah Cameron Index