In praise of profanity /

"When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and &q...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adams, Michael, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
English language > Obscene words.
English language > Slang.
Swearing.
Anglais (Langue) > Argot.
Jurons.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
English language > Obscene words
English language > Slang
Swearing
Englisch
Fluch
Schimpfwort
Slang
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; In Praise of Profanity; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface; In Praise of Profanity; Chapter 1: Profanity: The Great Debate(s) ; IN THE BEGINNING ; BABEL RESTORED ; WHAT IS PROFANITY, EVEN? ; VULGARITY ; THE AGE OF PROFANITY ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 2: Intimacy, Exceptionalism, and Having It Both Ways ; INTIMACY AND SOLIDARITY ; EXCEPTIONALISM: AN INTERLUDE ; HAVING IT BOTH WAYS ; IN PRAISE OF PROFANITY ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 3: Expletive and Euphemism ; SHIT-SLINGING CHIMPANZEES ; LANGUAGE AS GESTURE ; PRAGMATIC PROFANITY ; PROFANITY AND THE END OF LANGUAGE ; THE PARADOX OF EUPHEMISM.
  • TRUE EUPHEMISMS EUPHEMISM AND POLITENESS ; EUPHEMISM AS PALIMPSEST ; PARODIES OF EUPHEMISM ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 4: Artful Profanity ; PHILOSOPHICAL PROFANITY ; POLITICAL PROFANITY ; PROFANITY PERFORMED ; PENULTIMATE PROFANITY ; REFERENCES ; Coda : Ultimate Profanity ; REFERENCES ; INDEX.

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