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The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language - Oxford Handbooks Keith Allan
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language - Oxford Handbooks
Keith Allan
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.
464 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 15, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198808190 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 464 |
| Dimensions | 253 × 182 × 34 mm · 914 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Allan, Keith (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Monash University) |
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