(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198920434)
Inflammatory Language investigates slurs, epithets that derogate purely on the basis of group-membership. Una Stojnic and Ernie Lepore argue, against prevailng views, that the distinctive pejorative effect of slurs is constituted by associat...Loe edasi...
Its Zekes first day at his new school and his head is filled with one big question: what will he do when they call him the N-word like they did at his old school?Zeke is expecting the worst day ever, and thats what its...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501391521)
Trolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies, by looking at literature from ancient Greece to the 1980s. Trolling is the most controversial genre of writing...Loe edasi...
Trolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies, by looking at literature from ancient Greece to the 1980s. Trolling is the most controversial genre of writing...Loe edasi...
The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeares World explores Shakespeares complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable insights on a key aspect of Shakespeares wor...Loe edasi...
In this entertaining history of trash talking, the author interviews some of the world’s top competitors who reveal the petty rivalries and mind games that fuel them, which helps him form a theory about the surprising and influential role name-callin...Loe edasi...
Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice. There is insult in the music we hear, how we express our musical preferences, as well as our reacti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111271040)
This volume acknowledges the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical institutions (especially forensic and symbouleutic), and aspires to enhance the knowledge and understanding of how this technique is used in such con-texts of both...Loe edasi...
This book provides analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words and their impact in practices of linguistic communication usually related to the discrimination or segregation of certain human groups....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299328047)
Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequenc...Loe edasi...
Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that...Loe edasi...
Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice. There is insult in the music we hear, how we express our musical preferences, as well as our reacti...Loe edasi...
History lessons have never been so hilarious thanks to this collection of insults through the ages—the targets of your barrage of vintage invective won’t know what’s hit them.Ever wanted to “air the lungs (1)” like a cowboy or dreamed...Loe edasi...
Sari: Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781684484010)
Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and...Loe edasi...
Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse-frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter-are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and rei...Loe edasi...
A funny and fascinating exploration of our reliance upon swear words, insults, and the artfully placed expletive, damn it. We use salty or artful language to win arguments, slander, cheat, and bully, as well as to express feelings of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Arden Shakespeare, ISBN-13: 9781350055490)
The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeares World explores Shakespeares complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable insights on a key aspect of Shakespeares wor...Loe edasi...
