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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

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| University of Bergen
| University of Bergen
Published online: 18 April 2014
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