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Who's Swearing Now?: the Social Aspects of Conversational Swearing
Kristy Beers Fagersten
Presents an investigation of how people actually swear that is illustrated by a collection of over 500 spontaneous swearing utterances along with their social and linguistic contexts. This book features a focus on the use of eight swear words: ass, bitch, cunt, damn, dick, fuck, hell, shit and their possible inflections or derivations.
330 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 17, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781443837934 |
| Publishers | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Pages | 330 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 213 × 29 mm · 589 g |
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