An edition of Call a spade a spade: from classical phrase to racial slur : a case study
(2002)
Call a spade a spade
from classical phrase to racial slur : a case study
by Wolfgang Mieder
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Call a spade a spade: from classical phrase to racial slur : a case study
2002, Peter Lang
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Table of Contents
Early scholarship on the phrase (1851-1978)
From Aristophanes to Erasmus of Rotterdam
The expression in dictionaries of quotations
The phrase in proverb and idiom collections
Spade = shovel, eunuch, card, and "black"
Literary texts from the 16th to the 20th century
Scholarly use of the proverbial expression
Use of the phrase in the mass media
Innocuous proverbial phrase or racial slur?
The phrase in advertisements and cartoons
Four demographic studies of the expression.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index.
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