DAMN!: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SWEARING IN MODERN AMERICA
Book ID/图书代码： 12580016B88516
English Summary/英文概要： Swearing, cussing, or cursing, out of anger, excitement, or just because, is something most of us do, at least to some degree. Turn on the television or open a magazine, and there it is. Damn! is an insightful and entertaining look at our evolving use of profanity over the last half-century or so, from a time when Gone with the Wind came under fire for using the word “damn” to an age where the f-bomb is dropped in all walks of life. Writer and artist Rob Chirico follows the course of swearing through literature, the media, and music, as well as through our daily lives. From back rooms and barracks to bookshelves and Broadway; and from precedents to presidents, the journey includes such diverse notables as George Carlin, the Simpsons, D. H. Lawrence, Ice T, Barack Obama, Nietzsche, and, of course, Lenny Bruce. If you have ever stopped and wondered WTF has happened to our American tongue, don’t get out the bar of soap until you finish Damn!
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 无论因为生气或者兴奋，我们都有可能随口说出脏话或者赌咒发誓。打开电视或者杂志，很可能就会看见“见鬼了！”之类的话语。本书就是对于我们这半个世纪以来如何运用这种语言的深入而不乏娱乐化的解读。五十年前，《飘》因为用上了诸如“见鬼”这样的单词就会被人付之一炬，然而今天，连“f”开头的单词也是随处可见的呢。作家、艺术家Rob Chirico在本书中追踪了咒骂用语在文学、媒体、音乐以及日常生活中的使用经历，从下等仆佣的话语，到入得书架和百老汇，在书中我们可以看到George Carlin，卡通片辛普森一家，作家D. H. Lawrence，奥巴马总统等等。如果你曾想过 WTF这个短语对于美国人来说究竟意味着什么，一定要读一读这本书。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：在俚语中，能够找到354种含义和“好极了”差不多的表述方法，其中大部分都可以用来称赞Chirico的这本书。睿智，博学，经过了广泛的研究和调查，最终告诉我们所谓“不好的语言”中，其实“不好”只不过是个人意见，而“语言”的部分确实是越生动、越吸引人，越有意义。因此，这个话题能够吸引到一半读者也能够对语言研究专家有所帮助。（Jonathon Green，著有《Green’s Dictionary of Slang》）
“Slang, which usually steers clear of praise, manages 354 synonyms for ‘excellent.’ Mr. Chirico’s book deserves the lot. It is witty, erudite, admirably widely researched, and skewers those who forget that in the phrase ‘bad language,’ the ‘bad’ is merely an opinion and it is the ‘language,’ as valid and fascinating as any other variety of English, that matters. Thus the essence of a study that will appeal both to the general reader and to the expert who will acknowledge it as among the best overviews of its topic: swearing. H. L. Mencken would have enjoyed Damn! So too would Lenny Bruce.” —Jonathon Green, author, Green’s Dictionary of Slang
“An informative trip on the topics of profanity, cursing, swearing, obscenity, or whatever else we want to call offensive speech, with connections to media, popular culture, the courts, sports, and social science. Damn! is full of relevant, up-to-date, and comprehensive examples of this vexing aspect of human communication. Chirico’s entertaining and often humorous examples bring home the complicated, nuanced, and often misunderstood world of cursing in America past and present.” —Timothy Jay, PhD, author, Cursing in America and Why We Curse
About the Author/作者介绍： Rob Chirico是作家、艺术家，曾著有《Field Guide to Cocktails》。他住在马塞诸塞州的Greenfield。Keith Allan是澳大利亚语言学家和Monash大学的荣休教授。Rob Chirico is a writer, an artist, and the author of Field Guide to Cocktails. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Keith Allan is an Australian linguist and emeritus professor at Monash University.
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