Kristy Beers Fägersten

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristy Beers Fägersten plays a role.

Title

Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts

Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282] 2017. vi, 266 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton 2022 SwearingHandbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), pp. 129–155 | Chapter
Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Gerardine M. Pereira 2021 Swear words for sale: The commodification of swearingPragmatics and Society 12:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
Swearing has traditionally been associated with spoken language; however, swear words are appearing more often in print and, notably, explicitly featured in commercial products. In this paper, we consider this development an example of the commodification of swear words, or ‘swear words for… read more
Beers Fägersten, Kristy 2017 Chapter 3. FUCK CANCER, Fucking Åmål, Aldrig fucka upp: The standardisation of fuck in Swedish mediaAdvances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts, Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton (eds.), pp. 65–86 | Chapter
Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton 2017 Introduction: Swearing research as variations on a themeAdvances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts, Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Chapter
Beers Fägersten, Kristy 2012 Intertextual quotation: References to media in family interactionThe Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 79–104 | Article
In this paper, I analyze conversations among family members whose appropriation of media texts represents conversational strategies whereby common ground is exploited for different purposes. In particular, intertextual quotation is shown to (1) allow participants to take evaluative stances towards… read more
Beers Fägersten, Kristy 2008 10. A corpus approach to discursive construction of hip-hop identityCorpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings, Ädel, Annelie and Randi Reppen (eds.), pp. 211–240 | Article
This chapter is an analysis of a 100,000-word corpus consisting of message-board postings on hip-hop websites. A discourse analysis of this corpus reveals three strategies employed by the posters to identify themselves as members of the hip-hop community in the otherwise anonymous setting of the… read more