Forbidden Words

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457608
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Words written by Keith Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.

Author : Eugénio de Andrade
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215237
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Words written by Eugénio de Andrade and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.

Author : James Henry Harris
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506479170
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book N written by James Henry Harris and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. The story captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than two hundred times in the text. Author James Henry Harris reports being relieved to come to the end of the semester of "encountering Twain's use of [the forbidden word] every week. . . . I was teetering on the brink of falling apart. . . . For the first time the class seemed to understand my painful struggle, and my plight as a Black man in class was a metaphor, a symbol of the past, present, and postmodern condition of American society." This is a courageous memoir that wrestles with the historic stain of racism and the ongoing impact of racist language in postmodern society. The book is about Harris's flashbacks, conversations, and dilemmas spawned by use of the epithet in a classroom setting where the author was the only Black person. His diary-like reflections reveal his skill as a keen reader of culture and literature. In these pages, Harris challenges his instructor and classmates and inspires readers to redress the long history of American racism and white supremacy bound up with the N-word. He reflects on how current Black artists and others use the word in a different way with the intention of empowering or claiming the term. But Harris is not convinced that even this usage does not further feed the word's racist roots. Healing racial division begins with understanding the deep impact our words can have to tear down or to heal. This book invites the reader into this important conversation.

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448188563
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by Sherman Alexie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

Author : M. Lothaire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848022
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Combinatorics on Words written by M. Lothaire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-11 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593421388
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Nasty Words written by John McWhorter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much. Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of our lexicon, an integral part of being human. In fact, our ability to curse comes from a different part of the brain than other parts of speech--the urgency with which we say "f&*k!" is instead related to the instinct that tells us to flee from danger. Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic. In a particularly coarse moment, when the public discourse is shaped in part by once-shocking words, nothing could be timelier.

Author : Patricia Traxler
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826209351
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Words written by Patricia Traxler and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""It wasn't the words that killed, it""Was the wilderness between the words, ""Like the wilderness of God, ""The catch of breath beyond a prayer, ""The wait, the long way home""From candle's gleam." "From "The Words"" Forbidden Words," Patricia Traxler's third book of poetry, explores the weight of unspoken thoughts and the emotional consequences that they may have. Her poems erupt from the prairies and farms of the Midwest, and in them she seeks refuge from the tumultuous storms of spiritual doubt, love, and loss. In her longer poems, such as "The Wife Talks in Her Sleep" and "The Lunatic's Ball," Traxler examines the relationship of silence to the language of women. Her crisp, shorter poems like "Lullaby" and "How I Got This Way" offer insight into the growth of spirituality and childhood in a Midwestern town. Those fascinated with the power of language and the challenge of faith will find Traxler's poems a captivating read.

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428850
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language Police written by Diane Ravitch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from your vocabulary! Textbook publishers and state education agencies have sought to root out racist, sexist, and elitist language in classroom and library materials. But according to Diane Ravitch, a leading historian of education, what began with the best of intentions has veered toward bizarre extremes. At a time when we celebrate and encourage diversity, young readers are fed bowdlerized texts, devoid of the references that give these works their meaning and vitality. With forceful arguments and sensible solutions for rescuing American education from the pressure groups that have made classrooms bland and uninspiring, The Language Police offers a powerful corrective to a cultural scandal.

Author : Juhani Karhumäki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642405797
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Combinatorics on Words written by Juhani Karhumäki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Combinatorics on Words, WORDS 2013, held in Turku, Finland, in September 2013 under the auspices of the EATCS. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 initial submissions. The central topic of the conference is combinatorics on words (i.e. the study of finite and infinite sequence of symbols) from varying points of view, including their combinatorial, algebraic and algorithmic aspects, as well as their applications.

Author : Lauren Rosewarne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Taboo written by Lauren Rosewarne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence ... male nudity ... abortion ... masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our society—and our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how they are presented in contemporary media—or, in many cases, delicately explored using euphemism and innuendo. The author offers fascinating, in-depth analysis of the meaning behind these portrayals of a variety of both mundane and provocative taboos, and identifies how new television programs, films, and advertising campaigns intentionally violate longstanding cultural taboos to gain an edge in the marketplace.