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Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study
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This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the history of swearing from its first known
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“People have a linguistic knowledge of swearwords -they have an understanding of the criteria that make up a swearword (see e.g., Ljung, 2010) in order to differentiate them from neutral words, including the pragmatic functions of, for example, expressing emotion or verbal emphasis, and their knowledge of swearing consists of all their previous experiences of it.”
From Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable (2023) · cites this paper as Ljung, 2010
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Why Don’t You Do It Right? Analysing Annotators’ Disagreement in Subjective Tasks
Sandri, M., Leonardelli, E., Tonelli, S., & Jezek, E. (2023) · Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · doi:10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.178 · Cited by 31
Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable
Hunt, M., Cotter, C., Pearson, H., & Stockall, L. (2023) · Journal of Sociolinguistics · doi:10.1111/josl.12588 · Cited by 5
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- Authors
- Ljung, M.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2010-11-30
- Cited by
- 54
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- 0
- Language
- en
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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