quarta-feira, 29 de junho de 2011

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


Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present
Date: 2007
Pages: 263
Format: PDF
Size: 1,5 MB
Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English.
This corpus informed account of swearing describes swearing and also outlines its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse. A major theme of the book is the extension and application of corpus linguistics in the context of relevant analytical and theoretical models from linguistics, psychology and sociology.

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