“Communication has an important role in the society. Without communication, people cannot understand each other” And one very specific type of communication – the swearword – has been selected for special attention at The Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia – which is in the process of compiling one of the most comprehensive databases regarding swearing […]
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Lower Working-Class Women’s Expletives
Expletives of Lower Working-Class Women, published in 1992 in the journal Language in Society, is a rare sociolinguistic study of this inherently provocative topic. “This article,” wrote author Susan Hughes of the University of Salford, “sets out to look at the reality of the swearing used by a group of women from a deprived inner-city […]