The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

ISBN-13: 9780198808190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 464 str.

Keith Allan

Opis

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.

Recenzje

...The volume...more than fulfils the need for an initial compilation and comprehensible thematization of the major advancements made in the field thus far. In so doing, it also helps to highlight areas of neglect and promising directions for new and continued research. Kristy Beers Fägersten, Södertörn University, Journal of Pragmatics

O autorze

Keith Allan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. His research interests include the history and philosophy of linguistics, and aspects of meaning in language. His many books include Linguistic Meaning (Routledge, 1986; reissued 2014), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), and The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics (Equinox, 2007; 2nd ed. 2010). He is the co-editor of multiple volumes, including The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (with Kasia Jaszczolt; CUP, 2012), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics (OUP, 2012), and The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (Routledge, 2015).