2006 - McEnery, T. - Swearing in English [Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the present] - Routlegde.pdf

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Swearing in English
Swearing in English uses the spoken section of the British National Corpus to establish
how swearing is used, and to explore the associations between bad language and gender,
social class and age. The book goes on to consider why bad language is a major locus of
variation in English and investigates the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad
language. The effects that centuries of censorious attitudes to swearing have had on bad
language are examined, as are the social processes that have brought about the
associations between swearing and a number of sociolinguistic variables.
Drawing on a variety of methodologies, including historical research and corpus
linguistics, and a range of data such as corpora, dramatic texts, early modern newsbooks
and television programmes, Tony McEnery takes a sociohistorical approach to discourses
about bad language in English. Moral panic theory and Bourdieu’s theory of distinction
are also utilised to show how attitudes to bad language have been established over time
by groups seeking to use an absence of swearing in their speech as a token of moral,
economic and political power. This book provides an explanation, not simply a
description, of how modern attitudes to bad language have come about.
Tony McEnery is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster
University, UK, and has published widely in the area of corpus linguistics.
Routledge advances in corpus linguistics
Edited by Tony McEnery
Lancaster University, UK
and
Michael Hoey
Liverpool University, UK
Corpus-based linguistics is a dynamic area of linguistic research. The series aims to
reflect the diversity of approaches to the subject, and thus to provide a forum for debate
and detailed discussion of the various ways of building, exploiting and theorising about
the use of corpora in language studies.
1 Swearing in English
Bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present
Tony McEnery
2 Antonymy
A corpus-based perspective
Steven Jones
3 Modelling Variation in Spoken and Written English
David Y.W.Lee
4 The Linguistics of Political Argument
The spin-doctor and the wolf-pack at the White House
Alan Partington
5 Corpus Stylistics
Speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing
Elena Semino and Mick Short
6 Discourse Markers Across Languages
A contrastive study of second-level discourse markers in native and non-native text with
implications for general and pedagogic lexicography
Dirk Siepmann
7 Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions
A corpus-based study
Sebastian Hoffman
8 Public Discourses of Gay Men
Paul Baker
Swearing in English
Bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present
Tony McEnery
LONDON AND NEW YORK
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