The Anatomy of Swearing
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780812217643
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Sociology; Customs & Traditions; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Swearing; Anthropology - Cultural; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Anthropology - General
First sentence: SWEARING constitutes a species of human behavior so little understood, even by its most devoted practitioners, that an examination of its meaning and significance is now long overdue.