swear word

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Sources

• NASH 1968 234

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 332

  AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• HUDSON 1996 13-14 (also "swearing")

  HUDSON, R.A. (1996) Sociolinguistics, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: University Press.

• TRUDGILL 1974 30 (swear-word)

  TRUDGILL, Peter. (1974) Sociolinguistics: An Introduction. London: Penguin Books.

• ELL 4512-4513 (also "curse word", "obscene word", "four-letter word", "dirty word", "taboo word")

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• CRYSTAL 2001 332 (swearing)

  CRYSTAL, David. (2001) A Dictionary of Language, 2nd Ed Chicago: University of Chicago Press.