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(0)Michael Adams
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language": how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequently in practice? Though profanity is more acceptable today than ever, it is still...
Author
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Tourists flock to battlefields, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate the horrors of war. In Living Hell, Adams uses the voices of actual participants on the firing line or in the hospital ward to create a virtual historical reenactment. Perhaps because...
Series
Topics in English linguistics volume 85
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Harmony is a cosmetics saleslady whose life is shaped by an early encounter with the King himself. It all takes an ugly turn when she accidentally kills some Elvis impersonators and flees the scene. Running from the FBI, Harmony shows a knack for leaving Elvis impersonators in her wake. Let's hope luck improves when she hooks up with an executive whose wife also has Elvis issues.
