'She's a fucking ticket': The pragmatics of FUCK in Irish English - an age and gender perspective

Corpora

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-106

  Murphy, Bróna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85055403803     PISSN: 17495032     EISSN: 17551676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E1749503209000239     Document Type: Article

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