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Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)
Swearing in English Bad Language Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present - Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Author: Tony Mcenery
Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415544047
ISBN-10: 0415544041
Publication Date: 9/17/2009
Pages: 278
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Paperback
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