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The Art of Verbal Warfare
About this book
We use salty or artful language to win arguments, slander, cheat and bully, as well as to express feelings of joy or frustration and blow off steam. Rik Smits delves into the magic of oaths and profanity, art and advertising, probes the lure of fake-news and propaganda, and explores invective and off-colour jokes the world over. The Art of Verbal Warfare shows why conversation dies in crowded lifts, what drives you to curse at your laptop and what makes some political bigshots fall, but not others. This is, when all is said and done, the story of how we get through life without coming to physical blows.
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Topic
FilologíaSubtopic
Estudios de comunicaciónTable of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- 1 Verbal Bloody Warfare
- 2 Fire and Brimstone
- 3 I Put a Spell on You
- 4 The Queen’s Cunt
- 5 Taking Them Down a Peg or Two
- 6 The Trouble with Twitter: Why Social Media Are Hard to Handle
- 7 Infuxation and Other Miracles of Language
- 8 Effective Invective
- 9 Song and Dance and Games People Play
- 10 The Politics of Swearing
- 11 The Names of the Lord, the State and the Insecure
- 12 The Fifteen Laws of Propaganda
- 13 How to Win a War
- Epilogue: The Trouble with Rationality
- REFERENCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- GENERAL INDEX
- INDEX OF NAMES
- INDEX OF LANGUAGES
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