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Offensive Language - Taboo, Offence and Social Control (Paperback)
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Offensive Language - Taboo, Offence and Social Control (Paperback)
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Why do people take offence at things that are said? What is it
exactly about an offending utterance which causes this negative
reaction? How well motivated is the response to the offence?
Offensive Language addresses these questions by applying an array
of concepts from linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics to a
wide range of examples, from TV to Twitter and from Mel Gibson to
Donald Trump. Establishing a sharp distinction between potential
offence and actual offence, Jim O'Driscoll then examines a series
of case studies where offence has been caused, assessing the nature
and degree of both the offence and the documented response to it.
Through close linguistic analysis, this book explores the fine line
between free speech and criminal activity, searching for a
principled way to distinguish the merely embarrassing from the
reprehensible and the censurable. In this way, a new approach to
offensive language emerges, involving both how we study it and how
it might be handled in public life.
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