TY - JOUR AU - O.D. Fais-Leutskaia AB - The article discusses the phenomenon of vulgar language in the realm of Sicily’s traditional cuisine, which may be seen as a relic of the medieval carnivalesque and humor culture. The author examines oddities and indecencies in the names of traditional dishes, their particular forms and iconography, erotic and coprological symbols in Sicily, as well as anticlerical references pertaining to food and cuisine and the shouting of street vendors as sources of symbolic cultural information. She argues that the persistence of this peculiar language stratum is the result of conservative character of the local culture and society in Sicily. BT - Etnograficeskoe Obozrenie DO - 10.31857/S086954150004880-8 LA - Russian M1 - 2 N1 - Publisher: Russian Academy of Sciences N2 - The article discusses the phenomenon of vulgar language in the realm of Sicily’s traditional cuisine, which may be seen as a relic of the medieval carnivalesque and humor culture. The author examines oddities and indecencies in the names of traditional dishes, their particular forms and iconography, erotic and coprological symbols in Sicily, as well as anticlerical references pertaining to food and cuisine and the shouting of street vendors as sources of symbolic cultural information. She argues that the persistence of this peculiar language stratum is the result of conservative character of the local culture and society in Sicily. PY - 2019 SP - 61 EP - 77 T2 - Etnograficeskoe Obozrenie TI - Vulgar language in the realm of sicilian traditional cuisine [Skabreznosti v sfere sitsiliiskoi traditsionnoi kukhni] UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85066961565&doi=10.31857%2fS086954150004880-8&partnerID=40&md5=0df32a10c2adb88e8b6f4b64dad8db58 VL - 2019 SN - 08695415 ER -