"The Adoption of Abominable Terms": The Insults That Shape Windsor's Middle Class

Kegl, Rosemary

doi:10.1353/elh.1994.0016

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“…Among the various identified characteristics, expression of feelings, judgement, and retort were the most relevant ones. Nonetheless, the literature points out that insults have experienced a historical change in both meaning and usage (Flynn 1976;Kegl 1994;Murray 1979).…”

Section: Literature Review: Insults and Identitymentioning

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“Don’t Be a Son of a Bitch, Stand Up and Get What You Need”: Understanding Italian Young Adults’ Identity through Insults

Colzani

2019

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This qualitative study, grounded in the ethnography of communication, aims to describe how Italian young adults construct their individual and group identity through the use of insults. The existing literature has extensively investigated the communicative practice of insults, but no research has been done so far on insults in relation to the construction of identity in Italy. Therefore, this study enriches the literature, taking a linguistic, communicative, and pragmatic approach to the topic. In order to collect data, I conducted participant observation, one focus group, and three individual interviews. I applied thematic analysis to analyze the data. By interpreting members’ meanings, I identified four main functions of insults: construction of identity through gender; construction of identity depending on social context; construction of identity through the light use of insults; and construction of identity through the offensive use of insults.

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Section: Literature Review: Insults and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“Don’t Be a Son of a Bitch, Stand Up and Get What You Need”: Understanding Italian Young Adults’ Identity through Insults

Colzani

2019

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Normal School: Merry Wives and the Future of a Feeling

Hanson

2018

Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England

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‘Repatriating’ Falstaff: Boito, Verdi and Shakespeare (in Translation)

Gallo

2010

Nineteenth-Century Music Review

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In 1946, W.H. Auden began a series of weekly lectures on Shakespeare's plays at New York's New School for Social Research. Arriving at The Merry Wives of Windsor, he pronounced it ‘a very dull play indeed’. Nevertheless, he allowed, ‘We can be grateful for its having been written, because it provided the occasion of Verdi's Falstaff, a very great operatic masterpiece’. Having nothing to say about The Merry Wives, he played a recording of the opera for the duration of the class.

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"The Adoption of Abominable Terms": The Insults That Shape Windsor's Middle Class

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

“Don’t Be a Son of a Bitch, Stand Up and Get What You Need”: Understanding Italian Young Adults’ Identity through Insults

“Don’t Be a Son of a Bitch, Stand Up and Get What You Need”: Understanding Italian Young Adults’ Identity through Insults

Normal School: Merry Wives and the Future of a Feeling

‘Repatriating’ Falstaff: Boito, Verdi and Shakespeare (in Translation)

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