02440nam 2200565 450 991079722440332120230807215941.01-4438-7872-3(CKB)3710000000433551(EBL)2076499(SSID)ssj0001561177(PQKBManifestationID)16200270(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001561177(PQKBWorkID)14829828(PQKB)11168996(Au-PeEL)EBL2076499(CaPaEBR)ebr11068974(CaONFJC)MIL819806(OCoLC)913333343(MiAaPQ)EBC2076499(EXLCZ)99371000000043355120150707h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAin'thology the history and life of a taboo word /edited by Patricia Donaher and Seth KatzNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2015.©20151 online resource (376 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-7450-7 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEXThe word ain't is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain't as marking speakers as ""lazy"" or ""stupid""; and the educated assume ain't is on its deathbed, used only in clichés. Everyone has an opinion about ain't. Even the grammar-checker in Microsoft Word flags every ain't with a red underscore. But why? Over the past 100 years, only a few articles and sections of books have reviewed the history of ain't or discussed it in dialect cont...Taboo, LinguisticEnglish languageSemanticsTaboo, Linguistic.English languageSemantics.417.2Donaher PatriciaKatz SethMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797224403321Ain'thology3772377UNINA