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The Art of Verbal Warfare
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A funny and fascinating exploration of our reliance upon swear words, insults, and the artfully placed expletive, damn it. We use salty or artful language to win arguments, slander, cheat, and bully, as well as to express feelings of joy or frustration by swearing or "blowing off steam." Rik Smits delves into the magic of oaths and profanity, art and advertising, the lure of fake news and propaganda, as well as invective and off-color jokes the world over. This book shows why conversation dies in crowded elevators and what drives us to curse at our laptops. The Art of Verbal Warfare is, when all is said and done, the story of how we can get through life without coming to physical blows.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- 1 Verbal Bloody Warfare
- 2 Fire and Brimstone
- 3 I Put a Spell on You
- 4 The Queenâs Cunt
- 5 Taking Them Down a Peg or Two
- 6 The Trouble with Twitter: Why Social Media Are Hard to Handle
- 7 Infuxation and Other Miracles of Language
- 8 Effective Invective
- 9 Song and Dance and Games People Play
- 10 The Politics of Swearing
- 11 The Names of the Lord, the State and the Insecure
- 12 The Fifteen Laws of Propaganda
- 13 How to Win a War
- Epilogue: The Trouble with Rationality
- REFERENCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- GENERAL INDEX
- INDEX OF NAMES
- INDEX OF LANGUAGES