This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered

The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language defines taboo as a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistics and law. It outlines the range of legal areas in

Leading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurol