Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language
by:
Ruth Wajnryb (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780743274340 (0743274342)
Publish date: July 5th 2005
Publisher: Free Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Writing,
Funny,
History,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Words,
Books About Books,
Sociology
I absolutely loved this book and Ruth Wajnryb's masterful blend of linguistic analysis and tongue-in-cheek commentary on "swearing." I don't consider myself a linguistics nerd by any means so there were some moments when the linguistic vocabulary felt a little over my head, but for the most part I f...
This was a bit more dry and academic than I expected, but I still enjoyed it. I thought it would be more of a history of swearing, or a sociological study of the way different groups curse. There's definitely some of that but most of the focus is on linguistics, which I really don't know much about....
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