The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and LanguageKeith Allan Oxford University Press, 8 gen 2019 - 480 pagine 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. Chapters 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. |
Sommario
An overview | 1 |
2 Taboo language and impoliteness | 28 |
3 Taboos in speaking of sex and sexuality | 41 |
4 Speaking of disease and death | 61 |
5 The psychology of expressing and interpreting linguistic taboos | 77 |
6 Taboo language awareness in early childhood | 96 |
7 Swearing and the brain | 108 |
Taboo topics in deaf communities | 140 |
13 Philosophical investigations of the taboo of insult | 233 |
14 Religious and ideologically motivated taboos | 248 |
15 Speech or conduct? Law censorship and taboo language | 264 |
16 Taboo language in books films and the media | 285 |
17 Taboos and bad language in the mouths of politicians and in advertising | 311 |
18 Taboo language used as banter | 334 |
19 Taboo language as source of comedy | 353 |
20 An anthropological approach to taboo words and language | 372 |
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