Tony Mcenery

Swearing in English

Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad language. Drawing on a variety of methodologies including historical research and corpus linguistics, and a range of data such as corpora, dramatic texts, early modern newsbooks and television, Tony McEnery takes a socio-historical approach to discourses about bad language in English. Arguing that purity of speech and power have come to be connected via a series of moral panics about bad language, the book contends that these moral panics, over time, have generated the differences observable in bad language usage in present day English. A fascinating, comprehensive insight into an increasingly popular area, this book provides an explanation, and not simply a description, of how modern attitudes to bad language have come about.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780415544047
• ISBN-10: 0415544041
• Artikelnr.: 27212645

Autorenporträt

Tony McEnery

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Bad Language, Bad Manners
Part I: How Brits Swear 2. "So you recorded swearing": Bad Language in
Present-day English Part II: Censors, Zealots and Four-letter Assaults on
Authority 3. Early Modern Censorship of Bad Language 4. Modern Attitudes to
Bad Language Form: The Reformation of Manners 5. Late-twentieth-century Bad
Language: The Moral Majority and Four-Letter assaults on Authority Part
III: Discourses of Panic 6. Sea Change: The Society for the Reformation of
Manners and Moral Panics About Bad Language 7. Mutations: The National
Viewers' and Listeners' Association Moral Panic Postscript Notes
Bibliography Index

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List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Bad Language, Bad Manners Part I: How Brits Swear 2. "So you recorded swearing": Bad Language in Present-day English Part II: Censors, Zealots and Four-letter Assaults on Authority 3. Early Modern Censorship of Bad Language 4. Modern Attitudes to Bad Language Form: The Reformation of Manners 5. Late-twentieth-century Bad Language: The Moral Majority and Four-Letter assaults on Authority Part III: Discourses of Panic 6. Sea Change: The Society for the Reformation of Manners and Moral Panics About Bad Language 7. Mutations: The National Viewers' and Listeners' Association Moral Panic Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"Swearing in English is not only a great read, but also an excellent example of creative, dynamic and meticulous linguistic inquiry." -Applied Linguistics