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In:Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts
Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 282] 2017
► pp. 157–181

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Chapter 7
Swearing in English and Spanish teenage talk

 | University of Bergen
Published online: 19 October 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.282.08ste
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The corpora
  • 3.Overall frequencies in COLT and COLAm: The top ten
    • 3.1Female and male teenage swearing compared
    • 3.2The impact of the teenagers’ socioeconomic background
    • 3.3COLT vs NewLon
    • 3.4Young vs old in COLT and BNC/South
    • 3.5Young vs old in COLAm and CREA
  • 4.Characteristics of the English and Spanish top ten
    • 4.1Swearing vs abusing
    • 4.2Swearwords
      • 4.2.1 Fuck/ing and joder/jo/jodido
      • 4.2.2 God and dios
      • 4.2.3 Shit and mierda
      • 4.2.4 Bloody and puto/a
      • 4.2.5 Hell and hostia
      • 4.2.6 Bollocks and cojones
      • 4.2.7 Coño
      • 4.2.8 Me cago en
    • 4.3Abuses
      • 4.3.1 Bastard and hijo de puta
      • 4.3.2 Bitch and hija de puta
      • 4.3.3 Cunt
      • 4.3.4 Gilipollas
  • 5.Intention vs perception
    • 5.1Using swearwords
    • 5.2Abusing
  • 6.Discussion
    • 6.1Taboo or non-taboo?
    • 6.2The favourite swearwords
    • 6.3Swearword or abuse?
    • 6.4What is new?
    • 6.5The five questions
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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