<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Ilana,</div><div><br></div><div>What a fun/potentially distressing course! I'm interested in this too and will be keen to see folks' suggestions. In the meantime, you might get some sources from my bibliography (too short- editors set a strict limit) in my encyclopedia article on "obscenity and taboo words," which includes citations of e.g. Kira Hall, Luke Fleming, Susan Seizer, Shaylih Muehlmann, Arthur Spears, Rupert Stasch, and Don Kulick here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.academia.edu/en/41573902/Obscenity_and_Taboo_Words_Encyclopedia_article_">https://www.academia.edu/en/41573902/Obscenity_and_Taboo_Words_Encyclopedia_article_</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Going darker (and with a content warning), my article from last year in Language and Society on dehumanizing epithets and military necropolitics, titled "Because it's easier to kill that way":</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.academia.edu/50843171/Because_its_easier_to_kill_that_way_Dehumanizing_epithets_militarized_subjectivity_and_American_necropolitics">https://www.academia.edu/50843171/Because_its_easier_to_kill_that_way_Dehumanizing_epithets_militarized_subjectivity_and_American_necropolitics</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>And then there's the intro to Norma Mendoza-Denton's and my edited Trump volume, including discussion of his/politicians' increasingly untrammelled language and profanity, and DT's various "semiotic crimes" - actually the whole volume has lots of great chapters about this, but here is the open access intro:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.academia.edu/44614054/Introduction_The_Trump_Era_as_a_Linguistic_Emergency">https://www.academia.edu/44614054/Introduction_The_Trump_Era_as_a_Linguistic_Emergency</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Very best,</div><div>Janet</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 7:02 AM <<a href="mailto:linganth-request@listserv.linguistlist.org">linganth-request@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Linganth mailing list submissions to<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
I am planning to teach a course next fall ? bad language and semiotic<br>
crimes. I am wondering what articles or books you would recommend that I<br>
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Thank you for any and all suggestions,<br>
Ilana<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Janet McIntosh</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Professor of Anthropology </div><div>Brandeis University</div><div>PO Box 549110, MS 006</div><div>Waltham, MA 02454</div><div>Tel: 781-736-2215</div><div>Fax: 781-736-2232</div><div><font color="#0000ee"><u><a href="https://brandeis.academia.edu/JanetMcIntosh" target="_blank">https://brandeis.academia.edu/JanetMcIntosh</a> </u></font><br><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,139);text-decoration:none"><a style="color:rgb(0,0,139);text-decoration:none"></a></span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>