Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language

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351501 Acknowledgements We owe gratitude to many people, none more than our superb research assistant Wendy Allen, who also offered valuable critical comment as the drafts developed. Many other friends and colleagues were generous with their help and we express our thanks to Ana Deumert, Andrew Markus, Arnold Zwicky, Bill Bright, Chen Yang, Hilary Chappell, Humphrey van Polanen Petel, Jae Song, Jane Faulkner, John Schiller, Jun Yano, Kerry Robinson, Lesley Lee-Wong, Marieke Brugman, Patrick Durell, Pedro Chamizo, Ross Weber, Sarah Cutfield, Tim Curnow and William Leap. We also thank Monash University for a small ARC Grant that paid for our Research Assistant and some incidental expenses. We are grateful to George Chauncey and Basic Books for permission to reproduce the Brevities collage as Figure 7.1. ix
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Page 38 and 39: Taboos and their origins 27 Censors
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The long faces and sombre tones at
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3 Bad language? Jargon, slang, swea
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Sex and bodily effluvia 145 All sex
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Sex and bodily effluvia 147 mostly
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Sex and bodily effluvia 149 Part of
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Sex and bodily effluvia 151 3. cont
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Sex and bodily effluvia 153 Medieva
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Sex and bodily effluvia 155 paedoph
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Sex and bodily effluvia 157 I’m a
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Sex and bodily effluvia 159 laws. I
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Sex and bodily effluvia 161 It is s
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Sex and bodily effluvia 163 Table 7
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Sex and bodily effluvia 165 At this
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Sex and bodily effluvia 167 is her
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Sex and bodily effluvia 169 ‘virg
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Sex and bodily effluvia 171 As we s
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Sex and bodily effluvia 173 Languag
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Food and smell 177 ‘Tandoori Pizz
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Food and smell 179 bodies. In weste
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Food and smell 181 [Recipe for roas
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Food and smell 183 that liver is in
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Food and smell 185 Culinary euphemi
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Food and smell 187 lurks the determ
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Food and smell 189 comb is when one
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Food and smell 191 As a summer trea
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Food and smell 193 Most foods conta
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Food and smell 195 expression meat-
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Food and smell 197 My succulent tas
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Food and smell 199 name krauts). Th
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Disease, death and killing 211 woma
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References 302297 Abbey, Edward. 19
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References 279 Brain, James L. 1979
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References 281 Cove, John J. 1978.
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References 283 Gildersleeve, Virgin
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References 285 Hughes, Susan E. 199
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References 287 Loury, Glen C. 1993.
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References 289 Oxford English Dicti
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Index A’Beckett 269 Abbey 49, 50,
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Index 295 Chafin 271 Chappell 265,
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Index 297 Frazer 5, 40, 126, 228, 2
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Index 299 linguisticalese 58, 59, 6
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Index 301 Read, A. 42, 258 Read, C.
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Index 303 Vogan 274 Vogue 190, 191
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