This class is an exploration of profanity, swearing, and taboo language. Studying this language offers insights into the ways that languages work and how humans use language. This class will investigate what makes a word taboo or obscene? Who decides?
Provides a complete archive of full-text articles for all American Anthropological Association journals, covering the first issue of publication through the current issue.
This database abstracts and indexes international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences as well as covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
