The Oxford handbook of taboo words and language / edited by Keith Allan.
| Other author | Allan, Keith, 1943- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Description | xii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online 2018 Linguistics |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Linguistics |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford handbooks in linguistics [Oxford handbooks] Oxford handbooks in linguistics. ^A886527 Oxford handbooks. ^A611862 |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 1. Taboo words and language: An overview / Keith Allan -- 2. Taboo language and impoliteness / Jonathan Culpeper -- 3. Taboos in speaking of sex and sexuality / Eliecer Crespo-Fernandez -- 4. Speaking of disease and death / Kate Burridge -- 5. psychology of expressing and interpreting linguistic taboos / Timothy B. Jay -- 6. Taboo language awareness in early childhood / Timothy B. Jay -- 7. Swearing and the brain / Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein -- 8. sticky: Taboo topics in deaf communities / Donna Jo Napoli -- 9. Taboo terms and their grammar / Jack Hoeksema -- 10. Taboo as a driver of language change / Reka Benczes -- 11. Problems translating tabooed words from source to target language / Pedro J. Chamizo Dominguez -- 12. Linguistic taboos in a second or foreign language / Jean-Marc Dewaele -- 13. Philosophical investigations of the taboo of insult / Luvell Anderson -- 14. Religious and ideologically motivated taboos / Keith Allan -- 15. Speech or conduct? Law, censorship, and taboo language / Christopher Hutton -- 16. Taboo language in books, films, and the media / Gabriele Azzaro -- 17. Taboos and bad language in the mouths of politicians and in advertising / Barnaby Ralph -- 18. Taboo language used as banter / Elijah Wald -- 19. Taboo language as source of comedy / Barry J. Blake -- 20. anthropological approach to taboo words and language / Stanley H. Brandes. |
| Summary | This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In general, taboo is defined as a proscription of behaviour for a specific community, time, and context. In terms of language, taboo applies to instances of language behaviour: the use of certain words in certain contexts. The existence of linguistic taboos and their management lead to the censoring of behaviour and, as a consequence, to language change and development.0Chapters in this volume explore the multiple types of tabooed language from a variety of perspectives, such as sociolinguistics, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, historical linguistics, and neurolinguistics, and with reference to fields such as law, publishing, politics, and advertising. Topics covered include impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018949665 |
| ISBN | 9780198808190 |
| ISBN | 0198808194 |
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