Swearing and Cursing : : Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective /

Swearing and Cursing : : Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective / / ed. by Nico Nassenstein, Anne Storch.

While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, this contribution redirects the necessary focus onto a sociolinguistics of swearing that puts transgressive practices in no...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.,
Ameka, Felix K.,
Eicke, Sven,
Farquharson, Joseph T.,
Forrester, Clive,
Hollington, Andrea,
Jay, Timothy,
Mietzner, Angelika,
Mitchell, Alice,
Muhsin Ibrahim, Muhammad,
Nassenstein, Nico,
Norrick, Neal R.,
Roque, Ricardo,
Steinbach-Eicke, Elisabeth,
Stenström, Anna-Brita,
Stodulka, Thomas,
Storch, Anne,
Traber, Janine,
Yakubu Yusuf, Aliyu,
HerausgeberIn:
Nassenstein, Nico,
Storch, Anne,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Language and Social Life [LSL] , 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 335 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Part I: Othering and abjection as deep practice
  • 1. “I will kill you today” – Reading “bad language” and swearing through Otherness, mimesis, abjection and camp
  • 2. Ten issues facing taboo word scholars
  • 3. “Damn your eyes!” (Not really): Imperative imprecatives, and curses as commands
  • 4. “Oh, bald father!”: Kinship and swearing among Datooga of Tanzania
  • 5. Aesthetics of the obscure: Swearing as horrible play
  • 6. “I sh.t in your mouth”: Areal invectives in the Lower Volta Basin (West Africa)
  • Part II: Cultural mobility as context of transgression
  • 7. The linguistics of Jamaican swearing: Forms, background and adaptations
  • 8. ‘Don’t say it in public’: Contestations and negotiations in northern Nigerian Muslim cyberspace
  • 9. Mock Chinese in Kinshasa: On Lingala speakers’ offensive language use and verbal hostility
  • 10. The name of the wild man: Colonial arbiru in East Timor
  • Part III: Disruptive and trashy performance
  • 11. Found and lost paradise: Bad language at a beach in Diani, Kenya
  • 12. The sexy banana – artifacts of gendered language in tourism
  • 13. English- and Spanish-speaking teenagers’ use of rude vocatives
  • 14. “He shall not be buried in the West” – Cursing in Ancient Egypt
  • Afterword
  • Index

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