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Language and social life (Mouton de Gruyter) ;.
Swearing and cursing: contexts and practices in a critical linguistic perspective. — Volume 22. / edited by Nico Nassenstein, Anne Storch. — 1 online resource. — (Language and social life). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2463126.pdf>.

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Subject: Anthropological linguistics.; Pragmatics.; Sociolinguistics.

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Table of Contents

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

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