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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 of swearing describes swearing and its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse.
294 pages, 60 black & white tables, 10 black & white line drawings
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 18, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415544047 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 292 |
| Dimensions | 261 × 281 × 15 mm · 738 g |
| Language | English |