Do Everyone Swear?! The Role of Swearing in the History of World Civilization

Vladimir Ilyich Zhelvis – Soviet and Russian psycholinguist and anthropologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages at Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. There is not a single nation in the world whose language does not contain swear words. They are even compared to volcanic eruptions, breaking out from underneath the crust of social prohibitions. This book is dedicated to such an unusual lexical layer. It is worth understanding why society stubbornly maintains what this very society also prohibits. The object of study in the book is not all human speech activity, but mainly the means of expressing human emotions. And one of the most emotional means of expression is swear words. The book is based on the author's doctoral dissertation, but has been rewritten so that it is understandable even to a non-specialist, but simply a lover of Russian literature.