Swearing in modern British English: The case of fuck in the BNC

Language and Literature

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 235-268

  McEnery, Anthony ^a,b   Xiao, Zhonghua ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BNC; Corpus; Fuck; Sociolinguistic variable; Swear

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949216562     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963947004044873     Document Type: Article

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