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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

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics, Book 1

LinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 0415258375
ISBN13: 9780415258371
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 14 2005
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
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.

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