On Profanity
The author describes this book, subtitled What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves, as a "love letter to profanity." In virtually every culture, profanity is derived from four areas: the corruption of terms originally used to describe the sacred, words pertaining...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Barron's (Chicopee, Mass.) Mass.), 2017, Vol.97 (23), p.32 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The author describes this book, subtitled What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves, as a "love letter to profanity." In virtually every culture, profanity is derived from four areas: the corruption of terms originally used to describe the sacred, words pertaining to sex, words pertaining to bodily functions, and racial or ethnic slurs. |
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| ISSN: | 1077-8039 |