Swearing in English : bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present /
Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus informed account of swearing describes swearing and its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006
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| Series: | Routledge advances in corpus linguistics ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
