Publications

Publication details [#48737]

Jay, Timothy and Kristin Janschewitz. 2008. The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research 4 (2) : 267–288.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

Language as a subject

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

This paper employs a cognitive psychological framework to explain swearing in a series of contexts and to offer a link to impoliteness studies.