Slurs

Language Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-358

  Croom, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Euphemisms; Philosophy of language; Politeness; Pragmatics; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952700261     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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