36.165, The F-Word: Sheidlower (2024)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-165. Tue Jan 14 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.165, The F-Word: Sheidlower (2024)

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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: The F-Word: Sheidlower (2024)


Title: The F-Word
Subtitle: Fourth Edition
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-f-word-9780197763339?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): Jesse Sheidlower

Hardback: ISBN: 9780197763339 Pages: 504 Price: U.S. $ 22.99

Abstract:

No word has generated more uses, more creative euphemisms, and more
strong opinions than fuck. Jesse Sheidlower's historical dictionary,
now in print for over 25 years, charts the uses of fuck and its many
permutations, from absofuckinglutely to zipless fuck. It illustrates
every sense of every entry with quotations, from the earliest that can
be found to a recent example, showing exactly how the word has been
used throughout history.
This new edition is not just a minor update but a comprehensive
revision of Sheidlower's groundbreaking text for the internet age.
Major new discoveries push back the known history of fuck by almost
two hundred years. Sheidlower also considers rapidly changing
attitudes towards the use of fuck in public discourse. The volume
includes over 2,500 new quotations; over 150 new antedatings (earlier
examples of existing entries, improving our understanding of the
word's development); and over 150 entries, including high-profile
recent uses such as AF 'as fuck', fuckboi, and the group of
expressions of the sort to give no fucks or zero fucks given.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics




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