Call a spade a spade
Subtitle: from classical phrase to racial slur : a case study
By: Wolfgang Mieder.
Series: International folkloristics,; v. 2
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Spade (The English word); English language -- Idioms.; Racism in language.; Proverbs, English.; Figures of speech.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early scholarship on the phrase (1851-1978); title: From Aristophanes to Erasmus of Rotterdam; title: The expression in dictionaries of quotations; title: The phrase in proverb and idiom collections; title: Spade = shovel, eunuch, card, and "black"; title: Literary texts from the 16th to the 20th century; title: Scholarly use of the proverbial expression; title: Use of the phrase in the mass media; title: Innocuous proverbial phrase or racial slur?; title: The phrase in advertisements and cartoons; title: Four demographic studies of the expression.