The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

Keith Allan
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Publisher Description

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2018
November 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
624
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
5.8
MB

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