Book review: KEITH ALLAN and KATE BURRIDGE,Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2006. 303 pp. EDWIN BATTISTELLA,Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others? New York: Oxford University Press,2005. 230 pp

Allan, K. and Burridge, K. (1991) Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gibbs, R.W. (1994) Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Jay, T. (2000) Why We Curse: A Neuro-psycho-social Theory of Speech . Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Lutz, W. (1989) Doublespeak. New York: Harper and Row.

Schmid, C. (2001) The Politics of Language. New York: Oxford University Press.