"A pioneering work."--Steven Smith, University of Essex

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's World explores Shakespeare's complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many

This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generat

Who’s Swearing Now? represents an investigation of how people actually swear, illustrated by a collection of over 500 spontaneous swearing utterances along wi

The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and unites them to explain and describe the psychol