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Publication details [#65015]

Schweinberger, Martin. 2018. Swearing in Irish English – A corpus-based quantitative analysis of the sociolinguistics of swearing. Lingua 209 : 1–20.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | dialogue | gender | sociolinguistics | swearing

Language as a subject

English, Irish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This inquiry assays the impact of sociolinguistic variables (viz. age, gender and geography) on the incidence of swear words in Irish English based on the private dialogue section of the Irish constituent of the International Corpus of English (ICE).