Art of Verbal Warfare

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

709 kr

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We use salty or artful language to win arguments, slander, cheat and bully, as well as to express feelings of joy or frustration and blow off steam. Rik Smits delves into the magic of oaths and profanity, art and advertising, probes the lure of fake-news and propaganda, and explores invective and off-colour jokes the world over. The Art of Verbal Warfare shows why conversation dies in crowded lifts, what drives you to curse at your laptop and what makes some political bigshots fall, but not others. This is, when all is said and done, the story of how we get through life without coming to physical blows.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-07-11
Mått156 x 234 x 47 mm
Vikt962 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor528
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789145946

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All of these ingenious expressions can be found within The Art of Verbal Warfare, Rik Smits's book about the language of power and aggression. This is a broad field, which explains why it runs to more than 500 pages. Yet it's a spicy and entertaining read throughout, from popular slang to political mud-slinging, to an invaluable chapter on the Fifteen Rules of Propaganda. Not forgetting the disaster of social media . . . there is such a fountain of anarchic, foul-mouthed, carnivalesque energy, obscenity and linguistic mayhem on display here, so much of it hilariously enjoyable, that life would be a dull affair without it. Would you really want to live in a world where irritable Danes were prevented from calling each other "arse-banana"?