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The Function Of Profanity In Modern English
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Table Of Contents .
Chapter 1- Introduction and Clarification
Chapter 2- Everyday Usage of Profanity
Chapter 3- How Profanity Offends
Chapter 4- A Look at the Literal Meanings and Taboo
Chapter 5- Phatic and Emotive Language
Chapter 6- The Employment of Substitutes
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....nglish, the words should be representative of the kind of profanity used
today. In his superb study "Swearing," Geoffrey Hughes said:
...A major shift has occurred in comparatively recent times in that a quite
different emphasis has become dominant. The 'lower' physical faculties of
copulation, defecation and urination have come very much to the fore as
referents in swearing.
Therefore it seems appropriate to choose a set of 'four-letter words' in
American English, known by american linguists .... |
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