Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English : grammar and beyond / edited by Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith.

In this chapter, we provide an account of antipodean swearing patterns, drawing on examples from existing written and spoken data banks. As part of this investigation, we consider general questions to do with swearing: what it is, why speakers do it and how swearing patterns have changed over the ye...

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Other Authors: Peters, Pam, Collins, Peter, 1950-, Smith, Adam (Adam Michael)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 39.
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