Swearing : a social history of foul language, oaths and profanity in English
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Swearing : a social history of foul language, oaths and profanity in English
（The language library）
B. Blackwell, 1991
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Bibliography: p. [268]-274
Includes indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is the history of the lexical underworld of the English language. It details the story of impropriety in language and of the lower registers of the foul and obscene. From the earliest times swearing has existed in many variegated forms from the deadly curse to trivial expletives occasioned by annoyance. The book tells of the use of magic in primitive societies, of the binding oath of the Anglo-Saxon warrior and of blasphemy in the medieval age of faith. It describes how in the Renaissance swearing acquired a more secular idiom, and how the conflict between linguistic exuberance and official exuberance lasted up until modern times. There are also sections on the various types of abuse - racist and sexist among others.
目次
- A cursory introduction
- unlocking the word hoard - the Germanic heritage
- paynims and charlatans - swearing in Middle English
- schismatic vituperation - the Reformation
- creativity and suppression in the Renaissance
- expansion and xenophobia
- the reign of decorum - Augustan and Victorian attitudes
- Quakers to convicts - swearing in the New Worlds
- the modern explosion and its accompanying restraints
- sexuality in swearing. Appendices: body language
- graffiti
- the language of comics.
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