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Abdel-Jawad, Hassan R.S. 2000. A Linguistic and Sociopragmatic and Cultural Study of Swearing in Arabic. Language, Culture and Curriculum 13 (2) : 217–240.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

everyday conversation | language and culture | pragmatics | speech act | swearing

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This study investigates a very frequent speech act in Jordanian everyday conversations: swearing in the sense of oath taking.