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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.

Table of Contents:
1: Keith Allan: Taboo words and language: An overview 2: Jonathan Culpeper: Taboo language and impoliteness 3: Eliecer Crespo Fernández: Taboos in speaking of sex and sexuality 4: Réka Benczes and Kate Burridge: Speaking of disease and death 5: Timothy B. Jay: The psychology of expressing and interpreting linguistic taboos 6: Timothy B. Jay: Taboo language awareness in early childhood 7: Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein: Swearing and the brain 8: Jami N. Fisher, Gene Mirus, and Donna Jo Napoli: sticky: Taboo topics in deaf communities 9: Jack Hoeksema: Taboo terms and their grammar 10: Kate Burridge and Réka Benczes: Taboo as a driver of language change 11: Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez: Problems translating tabooed words from source to target language 12: Jean-Marc Dewaele: Linguistic taboos in a second or foreign language 13: Luvell Anderson: Philosophical investigations of the taboo of insult 14: Keith Allan: Religious and ideologically motivated taboos 15: Christopher Hutton: Speech or conduct? Law, censorship, and taboo language 16: Gabriele Azzaro: Taboo language in books, films, and the media 17: Toby Ralph and Barnaby Ralph: Taboos and bad language in the mouths of politicians and in advertising 18: Elijah Wald: Taboo language used as banter 19: Barry J. Blake: Taboo language as source of comedy 20: Stanley H. Brandes: An anthropological approach to taboo words and language

About the Author :
Keith Allan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. His research interests include the history and philosophy of linguistics, and aspects of meaning in language. His many books include Linguistic Meaning (Routledge, 1986; reissued 2014), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), and The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics (Equinox, 2007; 2nd ed. 2010). He is the co-editor of multiple volumes, including The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (with Kasia Jaszczolt; CUP, 2012), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics (OUP, 2012), and The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (Routledge, 2015).

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...The volume...more than fulfils the need for an initial compilation and comprehensible thematization of the major advancements made in the field thus far. In so doing, it also helps to highlight areas of neglect and promising directions for new and continued research.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198808190
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Series Title: Oxford Handbooks
  • Weight: 966 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198808194
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Width: 179 mm


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