Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in EnglishPenguin Adult, 26.03.1998 - 304 Seiten Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary developments, such as the growth of Political Correctness. |
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... currency , which extended to insult and invective during the Middle English period . Cock is , in many ways , the odd word out in that the sense of ' penis ' is a metaphorical extension deriving potentially from two other meanings ...
... currency , which extended to insult and invective during the Middle English period . Cock is , in many ways , the odd word out in that the sense of ' penis ' is a metaphorical extension deriving potentially from two other meanings ...
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... currency in the course of the last century but became obsolescent in the course of this , having been replaced by abo and boong ( an aborigine word ) . The currency of abo was accelerated by the term's copious use in the Sydney Bulletin ...
... currency in the course of the last century but became obsolescent in the course of this , having been replaced by abo and boong ( an aborigine word ) . The currency of abo was accelerated by the term's copious use in the Sydney Bulletin ...
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... currency of sexual insults , while the ASSAs ( Afrikaans Speaking South Africans ) have borrowed and maintained the currency of racial insults . THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK As might be expected , the colonies and outposts generated their ...
... currency of sexual insults , while the ASSAs ( Afrikaans Speaking South Africans ) have borrowed and maintained the currency of racial insults . THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK As might be expected , the colonies and outposts generated their ...
Inhalt
IO Sexuality in Swearing | 206 |
Conclusion | 236 |
Appendices | 258 |
Urheberrecht | |
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abuse adjective Afrikaans American Anglo-Saxon appear arse attitudes Australian bastard become Beowulf bitch blasphemous bloody Bowdler bugger C. S. Lewis called Canterbury Tales censorship century chapter Chaucer Christ cited comic common context culture cunt curse damn deriving developed Dictionary discussed dysphemic Eric Partridge euphemism example expletive fart fashion figure flyting foul language four-letter French fuck H. C. Wyld hell homosexual Hornadge idiom instance insult ironic John kaffir Kenneth Tynan Lady Lady Chatterley's Lover linguistic literal literary London Lord male meaning medieval Mencken Middle English minced oaths modern Norse notable oaths obscene observed originally Oxford phrase piss play political profanity racist recorded reference religious Robert Burchfield satirical seems semantic sense sexual Shakespeare shit shows social society speech subsequently swearing taboo tale thou tradition usage uttered variety verbal Victorian virtually vocabulary vulgar whore woman women word word-field