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Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present - Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics McEnery, Tony (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 1st edition
Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present - Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
McEnery, Tony (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus-informed account describes swearing and its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse.
304 pages, 60 black & white tables, 10 black & white line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 14, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415258371 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 22 mm · 572 g |
| Language | English |