Tabooing insults: Why the ambivalence?
January-June 2020 - Vol 8 Num. 1
This paper examines insults, both verbal and non-verbal, on the premise that societies the world over have adopted an ambivalent attitude towards the creation and use of insult. The ambivalence argument is grounded in the sheer preponderance of both institutionalised and informal usages of verbal and non-verbal insults,...
Tabooing insults: Why the ambivalence?
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