Swearing and Cursing
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Swearing and Cursing

Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Swearing and Cursing

Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective

About this book

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 non-Western languages into the focus. The transdisciplinary volume contains innovative case studies that address swearing and cursing in parts of the world characterized by consequences of colonialism and increasingly debated inequalities. Turning away from more conventional and established methodologies and theoretical approaches, the book envisages to address transgressive linguistic practices, performances and contexts in Africa, Asia, America and Europe –including individuals' creativity, subversive power and agency. Due to its interdisciplinary and non-mainstream focus, this volume is an essential addition to the field of studies.

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Yes, you can access Swearing and Cursing by Nico Nassenstein, Anne Storch, Nico Nassenstein,Anne Storch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Psycolinguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Part I: Othering and abjection as deep practice
  4. 1. “I will kill you today” – Reading “bad language” and swearing through Otherness, mimesis, abjection and camp
  5. 2. Ten issues facing taboo word scholars
  6. 3. “Damn your eyes!” (Not really): Imperative imprecatives, and curses as commands
  7. 4. “Oh, bald father!”: Kinship and swearing among Datooga of Tanzania
  8. 5. Aesthetics of the obscure: Swearing as horrible play
  9. 6. “I sh.t in your mouth”: Areal invectives in the Lower Volta Basin (West Africa)
  10. Part II: Cultural mobility as context of transgression
  11. 7. The linguistics of Jamaican swearing: Forms, background and adaptations
  12. 8. ‘Don’t say it in public’: Contestations and negotiations in northern Nigerian Muslim cyberspace
  13. 9. Mock Chinese in Kinshasa: On Lingala speakers’ offensive language use and verbal hostility
  14. 10. The name of the wild man: Colonial arbiru in East Timor
  15. Part III: Disruptive and trashy performance
  16. 11. Found and lost paradise: Bad language at a beach in Diani, Kenya
  17. 12. The sexy banana – artifacts of gendered language in tourism
  18. 13. English- and Spanish-speaking teenagers’ use of rude vocatives
  19. 14. “He shall not be buried in the West” – Cursing in Ancient Egypt
  20. Afterword
  21. Index