Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in EnglishPenguin Adult, 26. mar. 1998 - 304 sider Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary developments, such as the growth of Political Correctness. |
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... instance riddled with ironies in Chaucer's Miller's Tale , discussed in the following chapter . There is no recorded medieval instance of the woodspell , to protect travellers from the dangers of the forest . It would appear that from ...
... instance riddled with ironies in Chaucer's Miller's Tale , discussed in the following chapter . There is no recorded medieval instance of the woodspell , to protect travellers from the dangers of the forest . It would appear that from ...
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... instances of such swearing , apart from the pagan invocation in the Anglo - Saxon charm for fertility and the episode in the Life of Wilfred , both cited earlier . However , the Scyldings in Beowulf show a serious instance of ' back ...
... instances of such swearing , apart from the pagan invocation in the Anglo - Saxon charm for fertility and the episode in the Life of Wilfred , both cited earlier . However , the Scyldings in Beowulf show a serious instance of ' back ...
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... instance , incidentally , contains the first recorded use of behind as a euphemism , anticipating the OED instance by several centuries . Chaucer's The Parlement of Foules ( c.1382 ) is also not purely within the flyting genre , since ...
... instance , incidentally , contains the first recorded use of behind as a euphemism , anticipating the OED instance by several centuries . Chaucer's The Parlement of Foules ( c.1382 ) is also not purely within the flyting genre , since ...
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IO Sexuality in Swearing | 206 |
Conclusion | 236 |
Appendices | 258 |
Copyright | |
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abuse adjective Afrikaans American Anglo-Saxon appear arse attitudes Australian bastard become Beowulf bitch blasphemous bloody Bowdler bugger C. S. Lewis called Canterbury Tales censorship century chapter Chaucer Christ cited comic common context culture cunt curse damn deriving developed Dictionary discussed dysphemic Eric Partridge euphemism example expletive fart fashion figure flyting foul language four-letter French fuck H. C. Wyld hell homosexual Hornadge idiom instance insult ironic John kaffir Kenneth Tynan Lady Lady Chatterley's Lover linguistic literal literary London Lord male meaning medieval Mencken Middle English minced oaths modern Norse notable oaths obscene observed originally Oxford phrase piss play political profanity racist recorded reference religious Robert Burchfield satirical seems semantic sense sexual Shakespeare shit shows social society speech subsequently swearing taboo tale thou tradition usage uttered variety verbal Victorian virtually vocabulary vulgar whore woman women word word-field