The F-Word
Autor Jesse Sheidloweren Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 feb 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197763339
ISBN-10: 0197763332
Pagini: 504
Dimensiuni: 146 x 216 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:4th edition
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197763332
Pagini: 504
Dimensiuni: 146 x 216 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:4th edition
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
The F Word is an astounding work of scholarship...an exhaustive but exhilarating ode to the creativity of obscenity.
Lexicography and lexicographers, like great wines, improve with age. Never more so than in this, the fourth revision of Jesse Sheidlower's The F-Word, his incomparably authoritative study of language's most notorious four letters. From the deep scholarship of its introduction to the fascinating range of illustrative citations, this is a masterpiece of its type. Or to suit praise to prose: it's fucking-A!
On the subject of that prize word of words, here's everything you ever wanted to know, everything you didn't know you wanted to know, everything you perhaps didn't want to know at all (but now you're glad you know it). I giggled, I chortled, I blanched, I blenched, I even gasped a few times. Jesse Sheidlower's exhaustive new edition of The F-Word may strike you as an unlikely candidate for bedside-table permanency, but I'm certain I'll want to keep my copy ever handy.
Everybody knows the f-word can serve any part of speech and that we use it with seemingly endless meanings, and all sorts of words -- f-words and euphemisms (let's call them eff-words) - derive from the OF. But everybody doesn't know the half of it until they peruse the new edition of Jesse Sheidlower's The F Word. Even if they encountered the third edition, they may not know about the 150 or so new f- and eff-words Sheidlower has uncovered since. The remarkable range of historical quotations in The F-Word shows us just how expressive and essential f-words can be, how they suffuse our experience. Over four editions of The F-Word, Sheidlower has proved that the f-word's story is a never-ending story. I'm already looking forward to the fifth edition.
Lexicography and lexicographers, like great wines, improve with age. Never more so than in this, the fourth revision of Jesse Sheidlower's The F-Word, his incomparably authoritative study of language's most notorious four letters. From the deep scholarship of its introduction to the fascinating range of illustrative citations, this is a masterpiece of its type. Or to suit praise to prose: it's fucking-A!
On the subject of that prize word of words, here's everything you ever wanted to know, everything you didn't know you wanted to know, everything you perhaps didn't want to know at all (but now you're glad you know it). I giggled, I chortled, I blanched, I blenched, I even gasped a few times. Jesse Sheidlower's exhaustive new edition of The F-Word may strike you as an unlikely candidate for bedside-table permanency, but I'm certain I'll want to keep my copy ever handy.
Everybody knows the f-word can serve any part of speech and that we use it with seemingly endless meanings, and all sorts of words -- f-words and euphemisms (let's call them eff-words) - derive from the OF. But everybody doesn't know the half of it until they peruse the new edition of Jesse Sheidlower's The F Word. Even if they encountered the third edition, they may not know about the 150 or so new f- and eff-words Sheidlower has uncovered since. The remarkable range of historical quotations in The F-Word shows us just how expressive and essential f-words can be, how they suffuse our experience. Over four editions of The F-Word, Sheidlower has proved that the f-word's story is a never-ending story. I'm already looking forward to the fifth edition.
Notă biografică
Jesse Sheidlower is the editor of the previous editions of The F-Word. He was Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1999 to 2013; since then, he has remained active in linguistic matters. He has served as President of the American Dialect Society, and now teaches lexicography at Columbia University. He has written about language for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Lingua Franca, Playboy, Esquire, Slate, Boing Boing, Bookforum, and various scholarly journals, including American Speech, Dictionaries (journal of the Dictionary Society of North America), and The Journal of English Linguistics. He is also the editor of the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, an online resource which launched in 2021.