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Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language 2019 Edition by Keith Allan
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In general, taboo is defined as a proscription of behaviour for a specific community, time, and context. In terms of language, taboo applies to instances of language behaviour: the use of certain words in certain contexts. The existence of linguistic taboos and their management lead to thecensoring of behaviour and, as a consequence, to language change and development.Chapters in this volume explore the multiple types of tabooed language from a variety of perspectives, such as sociolinguistics, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, historical linguistics, and neurolinguistics, and with reference to fields such as law, publishing, politics, and advertising. Topics covered include impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy. Table of contents : - 1: Keith Allan: Taboo words and language: An overview2: Jonathan Culpeper: Taboo language and impoliteness3: Eliecer Crespo Fernandez: Taboos in speaking of sex and sexuality4: Reka Benczes and Kate Burridge: Speaking of disease and death5: Timothy B. Jay: The psychology of expressing and interpreting linguistic taboos6: Timothy B. Jay: Taboo language awareness in early childhood7: Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein: Swearing and the brain8: Jami N. Fisher, Gene Mirus, and Donna Jo Napoli: sticky: Taboo topics in deaf communities9: Jack Hoeksema: Taboo terms and their grammar10: Kate Burridge and Reka Benczes: Taboo as a driver of language change11: Pedro J. Chamizo Dominguez: Problems translating tabooed words from source to target language12: Jean-Marc Dewaele: Linguistic taboos in a second or foreign language13: Luvell Anderson: Philosophical investigations of the taboo of insult14: Keith Allan: Religious and ideologically motivated taboos15: Christopher Hutton: Speech or conduct? Law, censorship, and taboo language16: Gabriele Azzaro: Taboo language in books, films, and the media17: Toby Ralph and Barnaby Ralph: Taboos and bad language in the mouths of politicians and in advertising18: Elijah Wald: Taboo language used as banter19: Barry J. Blake: Taboo language as source of comedy20: Stanley H. Brandes: An anthropological approach to taboo words and language