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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 19:1 (2014) ► pp.29–59

"Your mum! "Teenagers’ swearing by mother in English, Spanish and Norwegian

| University of Agder
| University of Bergen
| University of Bergen
Published online: 18 April 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.19.1.02dra
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