The Language of Journalism Volume Two Profanity Obscenity and the Media 1st Edition by Melvin J. Lasky ISBN 978-1351480260 1351480260

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ISBN 10: 1351480260 

ISBN 13: 978-1351480260

Author: Melvin J. Lasky 

This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky’s The Language of Journalism series, praised as a “brilliant” and “original” study in communications and contemporary language, and as “a joy to read.” When it was first published, it broke ground in focusing on the comparative styles and prejudices of mainstream American and British newspapers, and in its trenchant analysis of their systematic debasement of language in the face of obligatory platitudes and compulsory euphemisms.

Lasky documents the growing crisis affecting honest, thoughtful, and independent journalism in the Western world. He extends the scope of his first volume in the trilogy and deepens the interpretation. He also adds a personal touch of wit and anecdote, as one might expect from an experienced international journalist and historian. Lasky’s examination of the use of formerly forbidden language is a triumph of sinuous semantics. In his incisive analysis, we see the tortuous struggle of a once Puritanized literary culture writhing to break free of censorship and self-censorship.

This volume on the phenomenon of profanity adds another dimension to Lasky’s thesis on mass culture’s trivialization of real social and political phenomena. It also underscores our society’s embrace of banality, in standardizing politically correct jargon and slang. Readers of the first volume will find here a new range of references to illuminate the detail of what our newspapers have been publishing.

Table of contents: 

PART I. Towards a Theory of Journalistic Malpractice

Chapter 1. From A. N. Whitehead to Irving Kristol
Chapter 2. The Little Lie and the Big Story
Chapter 3. Difficulties in Grappling with Reality
Chapter 4. The New Shamanism

PART II. Sex and Other Ongoing Titillations

Chapter 5. The Ennui of Obscenity
Chapter 6. “O Propheta”
Chapter 7. Chaucer and a Choice of Taboo Words
Chapter 8. Strong Odors, Blurred Pictures
Chapter 9. Obsessions with the S-Word
Chapter 10. The Case of the Missing Fr-L****r Word**
Chapter 11. Asterisks: From Byron to Madonna
Chapter 12. Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad F-Word?
Chapter 13. Tiger, the Times and a Dreaded Black Asterisk
Chapter 14. Morphing the A-Word
Chapter 15. Terms of Endearment and Agreement
Chapter 16. The Mergenthaler Option
Chapter 17. A Matter of Illegitimacy
Chapter 18. The Guard that Failed
Chapter 19. The Desperate Search for “the Good Bits”
Chapter 20. Swearing is the Curse

PART III. Literary Origins and Popular Consequences

Chapter 21. Sources of Malpractice
Chapter 22. From Wordsworth to Orwell and Hemingway
Chapter 23. The Prose We Write and Speak
Chapter 24. Dealing with the Grandmother Tongue
Chapter 25. Quotations that were Unquoted
Chapter 26. Dirty Realism in the White House and Beyond
Chapter 27. Towards a Vocabulary of Pop Diplomacy

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