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Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present book cover

1st Edition

Swearing in English Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

By Tony McEnery Copyright 2006
292 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
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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... Read more

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

Biography

Tony McEnery

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