An anatomy of Chinese offensive words : a lexical and semantic analysis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tien, Adrian, Carson, Lorna (Author), Jiang, Ning (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What Is All the Fuss About?
  • 2. An Anatomy of the Chinese Offensive Lexicon
  • 3. Collecting and Categorizing Offensive Words in Chinese
  • 4. Four Representative Offensive Items from the Chinese Lexicon
  • 5. Offensive Words in Chinese Dialects
  • 6. Offensive Words in Chinese Cyberspace
  • 7. Offensive Language and First Language Acquisition of Chinese
  • 8. Offensive Language and Sociocultural Homogeneity in Singapore: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective
  • 9. So, What Was All the Fuss About?.