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In Praise of Profanity

Hardcover • 2016 • English

In Praise of Profanity

By Michael Adams

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About the book

When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f*** deal!" In 2003, Bono dropped the F-bomb while accepting a Golden Globe, prompting nation-wide debate. A town in Massachusetts leavens $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language": how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequentlyin practice? Though profanity is ...Show more

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9780199337583

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

In Praise of Profanity

Format

Hardcover

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