In praise of profanity / Michael Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Michael, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Obscene words.

English language.

English language--Slang.

Swearing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In In Praise of Profanity, Michael Adams offers a provocative, unapologetic defense of profanity, arguing that we consistently fail to appreciate it as a legitimate means of expressing ourselves.

Contents:

Cover; In Praise of Profanity; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface; In Praise of Profanity; Chapter 1: Profanity: The Great Debate(s) ; IN THE BEGINNING ; BABEL RESTORED ; WHAT IS PROFANITY, EVEN? ; VULGARITY ; THE AGE OF PROFANITY ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 2: Intimacy, Exceptionalism, and Having It Both Ways ; INTIMACY AND SOLIDARITY ; EXCEPTIONALISM: AN INTERLUDE ; HAVING IT BOTH WAYS ; IN PRAISE OF PROFANITY ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 3: Expletive and Euphemism ; SHIT-SLINGING CHIMPANZEES ; LANGUAGE AS GESTURE ; PRAGMATIC PROFANITY ; PROFANITY AND THE END OF LANGUAGE ; THE PARADOX OF EUPHEMISM

TRUE EUPHEMISMS EUPHEMISM AND POLITENESS ; EUPHEMISM AS PALIMPSEST ; PARODIES OF EUPHEMISM ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 4: Artful Profanity ; PHILOSOPHICAL PROFANITY ; POLITICAL PROFANITY ; PROFANITY PERFORMED ; PENULTIMATE PROFANITY ; REFERENCES ; Coda : Ultimate Profanity ; REFERENCES ; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-933760-8

0-19-933759-4

OCLC:

953458839