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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Skvernoslovie kak Sotsial`naia Problema v Iazykakh i Kul`turakh Mira
[ The battlefield : Invective as a social problem in world languages and cultures]
Moscow: Ladomir, 1997 331 p Serie: Russkaia Potaennaia Literatura Hardcover. 12 x 20 cm ISBN: 5862182616 Language: Russian
This is one of the first serious Russian studies of swearing that has grown in recent decades in many countries, but has assumed particularly large proportions in the Russian, American, and English cultures. The monograph probes into the reasons for "invective pandemonium" and compares invective strategies and tactics in different cultures. Questions about the ways of the ethical development of mankind are posed by the author, who studied the use of invective in about fifty languages, and examined materials from psychological, sociological, ethnographic, physiological, and other research. Provides numerous examples in various languages. Scholarly glossary, bibliography.
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