Free Download Keith Allan, "The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language "
English | ISBN: 0198808194 | 2019 | 464 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In general, taboo is defined as a proscription of behaviour for a specific community, time, and context. In terms of language, taboo applies to instances of language behaviour: the use of certain words in certain contexts. The existence of linguistic taboos and their management lead to the censoring of behaviour and, as a consequence, to language change and development.