Full Description
This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics.
Contents
1. What Is All the Fuss About?.- 2. An Anatomy of the Chinese Offensive Lexicon.- 3. Collecting and Categorizing Offensive Words in Chinese.- 4. Four Representative Offensive Items from the Chinese Lexicon.- 5. Offensive Words in Chinese Dialects.- 6. Offensive Words in Chinese Cyberspace.- 7. Offensive Language and First Language Acquisition of Chinese.- 8. Offensive Language and Sociocultural Homogeneity in Singapore: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective.- 9. So, What Was All the Fuss About?.
