Rude Britannia

Informationen zum Autor Mina Gorji is a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where her research interests include literary language and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of the forthcoming title John Clare and the Nature of Poetry. Klappentext This timely and authoritative exploration of rudeness in modern English draws together experts from the academic world and the media - journalists, linguists, lexicographers and literary critics - and argues that rudeness is an important cultural phenomenon. Zusammenfassung This timely and authoritative exploration of rudeness in modern English draws together experts from the academic world and the media - journalists, linguists, lexicographers and literary critics - and argues that rudeness is an important cultural phenomenon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction, Mina Gorji; Part 1 The vulgar tongue; Chapter 2 ‘The indefinable something’, Lynda Mugglestone; Chapter 3 Poubellication, Valentine Cunningham; Chapter 4 Rude words, Tom Paulin; Part 2 British bawdy; Chapter 5 Orwell's dirty postcards, David Pascoe; Chapter 6 How Vizmade Britain ruder, Theo Tait; Chapter 7 Bosom of the nation, Rebecca Loncraine; Part 3 The limits of rudeness; Chapter 8 When Saturday comes, Crowley Tony; Chapter 9 Redefining rudeness, Deborah Cameron Index;

Product details

• Authors: Mina Gorji, Mina (University of Cambridge Gorji
• Assisted by: Mina Gorji (Editor), Gorji Mina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2007
• EAN: 9780415382762
• ISBN: 978-0-415-38276-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Language: history & general works, Language: history and general works