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Hill, Deborah. 1992. Imprecatory interjectional expressions: Examples from Australian English. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (2-3) : 209–223.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This article shows the impact of semantic and pragmatic restrictions on two very different types of Australian English interjectional expressions: the difference between the expressions 'God knows' and 'Goodness knows' and the the functions of the word 'bloody' in three syntactic positions.