Descriptions of the Body: Violence in the Subcultures of Contemporary Romanian Youth

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Published: Dec 30, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10318-012-0014-6
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slang subculture violence licentiousness

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Daniela Doboș
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

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For a long time, with few exceptions, Romanian linguistics took no interest in native slang, but after 1990 this has made a dramatic comeback in more than one way. One of the crudest versions of new slang, with touches of violence and licentiousness, turning the unsayable into sayable, is that currently used by young Romanians. It has been justly argued that such linguistic outlet came as a logical consequence, after the demise of communism, of the former censorship and wooden tongue. The paper sets out to put this oft-deplored linguistic phenomenon into perspective and analyse the main linguistic means employed in shaping it up.

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Doboș, D. “Descriptions of the Body: Violence in the Subcultures of Contemporary Romanian Youth”. Linguaculture, vol. 2, no. 2, Dec. 2011, pp. 125-33, doi:10.2478/v10318-012-0014-6.
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Author Biography

Daniela Doboș, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

Daniela Doboş is associate professor at the Department of English of the Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. Her research interests are English grammar and linguistics, translation and cultural studies: recently, she has authored “In the Global ‘Hood’: Slang and Hip-Hop in Present-Day Romania” in Hip-Hop in Europe (ed. Sina Nitzsche), LIT Verlag Berlin/Münster. She has published extensively in various collections of essays, and is the author of two books on English linguistics.

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