Forbidden words : taboo and the censoring of language / Keith Allan and Kate Burridge.
Examines how we use language to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Taboos and their origins
- Sweet talking and offensive language
- Bad language? : jargon, slang, swearing, and insult
- The language of political correctness
- Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene
- Taboo, naming and addressing
- Sex and bodily effluvia
- Food and smell
- Disease, death and killing
- Taboo, censoring and the human brain.