Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780415258371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 296 str.

Anthony McEnery

Opis

Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus informed account of swearing describes swearing and also outlines its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse.

Recenzje

"Swearing in English is not only a great read, but also an excellent example of creative, dynamic and meticulous linguistic inquiry."  -Applied Linguistics

Spis treści

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Bad Language, Bad Manners Part I: How Brits Swear 2. "So you recorded swearing": Bad Language in Present-day English Part II: Censors, Zealots and Four-letter Assaults on Authority 3. Early Modern Censorship of Bad Language 4. Modern Attitudes to Bad Language Form: The Reformation of Manners 5. Late-twentieth-century Bad Language: The Moral Majority and Four-Letter assaults on Authority Part III: Discourses of Panic 6. Sea Change: The Society for the Reformation of Manners and Moral Panics About Bad Language 7. Mutations: The National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association Moral Panic Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Tony McEnery