Describing swearing and its social function, this book focuses on the relationship between swearing and abuse. It provides an explanation of how modern attitudes to bad language have come about. Num Pages: 296 pages, 60 black & white tables, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: CBX; CFB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430. . 2009. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415544041
ISBN 13: 9780415544047
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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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