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McEnery, Tony. 2005. Swearing in English. Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present. Routledge. 304 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
age | gender | language use | power | swearing
Language as a subject
English

Annotation

This book offers a socio-historical explanation of the emergence of modern attitudes towards bad language usage in present day English.