Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Taboos and their origins
- 2 Sweet talking and offensive language
- 3 Bad language? Jargon, slang, swearing and insult
- 4 The language of political correctness
- 5 Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene
- 6 Taboo, naming and addressing
- 7 Sex and bodily effluvia
- 8 Food and smell
- 9 Disease, death and killing
- 10 Taboo, censoring and the human brain
- Notes
- References
- Index
List of figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Taboos and their origins
- 2 Sweet talking and offensive language
- 3 Bad language? Jargon, slang, swearing and insult
- 4 The language of political correctness
- 5 Linguistic purism and verbal hygiene
- 6 Taboo, naming and addressing
- 7 Sex and bodily effluvia
- 8 Food and smell
- 9 Disease, death and killing
- 10 Taboo, censoring and the human brain
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Forbidden WordsTaboo and the Censoring of Language, pp. viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006