Insults as cognitive forms of ideological confrontation: Unparliamentary language

Ilie, Cornelia

doi:10.1075/cilt.205.14ili

In:Language and Ideology: Volume 2: descriptive cognitive approaches
Edited by René Dirven †, Roslyn M. Frank and Cornelia Ilie
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 205] 2001
► pp. 235–264

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Unparliamentary language

Insults as cognitive forms of ideological confrontation

Cornelia Ilie

Published online: 8 March 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.205.14ili

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