Forbidden Words - Allan, Keith; Burridge, Kate
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This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are'sweet-talking','straight-talking'or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.

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Produktbeschreibung
This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are'sweet-talking','straight-talking'or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.
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Autorenporträt
Keith Allan is Reader in Linguistics and Convenor of the Linguistics Program at Monash University.
Rezensionen
' ... accessible and wide-ranging publication ... this is a thoroughly engaging and fascinating book, written with brio and humour.' Journal of Politeness Research