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Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts
Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 282] 2017
► pp. 87–105

Chapter 4
Fuck in French

Evidence of “other-language” swearing in France and Québec

| California State University, Long Beach
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Other language swearing: semantic, pragmatic and affective dimensions
  • 3. Fuck alors
  • 4. Fuck as heightened transgression
  • 5.Canada: Fucker
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 October 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.282.05jaf
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