| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- For F*ck's Sake -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Why give a shit about swearing? -- 1. What is swearing? -- Swearing = offensiveness -- Swearing = offensiveness + emotion -- Swearing = offensiveness + emotion + linguistic anarchy -- Swearing and the brain -- 2. Swearing's secret offensive ingredient -- What we say . . . -- . . . and how we say it -- The taboo of taboo-breaking -- 3. There is no secret ingredient -- Context is (almost) everything -- Offence escalation -- The recipe for offensiveness -- 4. Different kinds of wrong -- When is swearing inappropriate? |
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Speaker intentions -- Inappropriate swearing, wrongness, and offence -- Swearing and moral character -- Is swearing wrong? -- 5. Taboo, aggression, and harsh sweary sounds -- Swearing and taboo, again -- The sound that swear words make -- Offence and expressing emotion -- Offensiveness beyond words -- 6. How to be a really offensive swearer -- Some background: nuisances -- Tone and body language -- Direct and indirect swearing -- Accidental or deliberate -- Repetition -- 7. You talkin' to me? -- Swear power -- Setting an example -- Won't somebody think of the children? |
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8. A regulatory fucking mess -- Who cares what we do with swearing? -- A lack of clear fucking guidelines -- A way forward: the nudity analogy -- 9. How to do things with swearing -- Acts, effects, intentions, predictions -- Sweary acts -- Beyond speech acts -- 10. Fairer swearers -- Putting the brakes on bias -- Educating our intuition -- Sweary self-improvement -- 11. Swears vs. slurs -- The journey to offensiveness -- Slurs and the feeling of offence -- Becoming offensive, becoming inoffensive -- Slurs, oppression, and desert -- Comparing slurs -- 12. Cunt and cocksucker |
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Offensiveness and misogyny -- When etiquette gets it wrong -- A dilemma for sweary feminists -- Gently increasing cunt love -- 13. Cunt and 'cunt' -- Sanitisation -- Quoting and mentioning -- Quotation, mention, and slurs -- The limitations of sweary quotation -- 14. How the f*** do asterisks work? -- Sanitisation: it's not about the word -- What we communicate besides the words -- When asterisks don't cut it -- 15. Swearing as a force for good -- Respect the power of swearing -- Swearing and intimacy -- Swearing as a pressure valve -- 16. The value of offensiveness -- Swearing and disability |
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Swearing in a foreign language -- Children, again -- Swearing on the outside -- Conclusion: You're all fucking superheroes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2024 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Swearing.
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Swearing
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Cultural studies: customs & traditions.
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Customs and Folklore.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197693896 |
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019769389X |
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