Swearing in English (Linguistics)

Title: Swearing in English: Bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present
Author(s): Tony McEnery
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2004
Pages: 264
Size: 1.11 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus informed account of swearing describes swearing and also outlines its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse. A major theme of the book is the extension and application of corpus linguistics in the context of relevant analytical and theoretical models from linguistics, psychology and sociology. [+/-]

In examining swearing from this angle the author is able to examine in detail the social functions of swearing with a view to developing a corpus based explanatory account of swearing in English.

Table of Contents
1 Bad language, bad manners
2 'So you recorded swearing': bad language in present-day English
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
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

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