Meaning of maledictology | Babel Free

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The scientific study of insults and curses.

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“For in the framework of maledictology (if one may so describe the science of cursing), when a spiritually evolved person pronounces an effective curse, he loses much of his/her accumulated credits.”

“This unexplored domain of maledictology offers unique possibilities to those nefarious individuals who may desire to convey either erotic, lecherous, licentious or profane and abusive messages.”

“Therefore, the paper follows the outline given above: (i) maledictology – on swearing and reviling, (ii) from the history…”

“maledictology * the study of obscene or abusive language”

“2014, Bill Van, Message-ID: in alt.usage.english https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.usage.english/3ypNokUv-gA/XW0j_o0RECsJ Reinhold Aman (born April 8, 1936) is a former chemical engineer and professor of German, and the publisher of Maledicta, a scholarly journal dedicated entirely to the study of offensive language, also known as maledictology.”

“2015, O. V. Moshtak, Linguistic aspect of evaluative category of pejorativeness. Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія: Філологія 17 (2) (2015): 137-139. http://www.vestnik-philology.mgu.od.ua/archive/v17/part_2/44.pdfhttp://www.irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?C21COM=2&I21DBN=UJRN&P21DBN=UJRN&IMAGE_FILE_DOWNLOAD=1&Image_file_name=PDF/Nvmgu_filol_2015_17(2)__44.pdf The linguists R. Aman and F. Kinner are called founders of modern science of verbal aggression - maledictology.”

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