Details

Subject(s)

• Taboo, Linguistic—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

Allan, Keith, 1943- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]

Summary note

The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language defines taboo as a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable time in specifiable contexts. What is in fact tabooed is the use of those words and language in certain contexts; in short, the taboo applies to instances of language behaviour. For behaviour to be proscribed it must be perceived as in some way harmful to an individual or their community but the degree of harm can fall anywhere on a scale from a breach of etiquette to out-and-out fatality. All tabooed behaviours are deprecated and they lead to social if not legal sanction. Taboos are described and the reasons and beliefs behind them are investigated.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2018).

Contents

• Taboo words and language : An overview / Keith Allan
• Taboo as a driver of language change / Kate Burridge, Réka Benczes
• Problems translating tabooed words from source to target language / Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez
• Linguistic taboos in a second or foreign language / Jean-Marc Dewaele
• Philosophical investigations of taboo of insult / Luvell Anderson
• Religious and ideologically motivated taboos / Keith Allan
• Speech or conduct? Law, censorship, and taboo language / Christopher Hutton
• Taboo language in books, films, and the media / Gabriele Azzaro
• Taboos and bad language in the mouths of politicians and in advertising / Toby Ralph, Barnaby Ralph
• Taboo language used as banter / Elijah Wald
• Taboo language as source of comedy / Barry J. Blake
• Taboo language and impoliteness / Jonathan Culpeper
• An anthropological approach to taboo words and language / Stanley H. Brandes
• Taboos in speaking of sex and sexuality / Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
• Speaking of disease and death / Réka Benczes, Kate Burridge
• The psychology of expressing and interpreting linguistic taboos / Timothy B. Jay
• Taboo language awareness in early childhood / Timothy B. Jay
• Swearing and the brain / Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein
• Taboo topics in deaf communities / Jami N. Fisher, Gene Mirus, Donna Jo Napoli
• Taboo terms and their grammar / Jack Hoeksema.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of taboo words and language
• Taboo words and language

ISBN

• 9780192535702
• 0192535706
• 9780192535696
• 0192535692
• 9780191845871
• 0191845876

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