Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present by Tony McEnery

Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Tony McEnery

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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...

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