The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

ISBN: 9780198808190 出版年：2018 页码：465 Oxford University Press

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.