Swearing in English
Subtitle: bad language, purity and power from 1586 to the present
By: Tony McEnery.
Series: Routledge advances in corpus linguistics -- 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Swearing -- History.; Power (Social sciences) -- English-speaking countries.; English language -- Social aspects.; English language -- Obscene words.; English language -- History.; English language -- Slang.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.