Joshua Wedlock
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joshua Wedlock is involved.
Article
2023 Swearing as a Leadership Tool: The sociopragmatics of swearing in New Zealand English English World-Wide 44:3, pp. 323–350 | Article
Although swearing is often perceived as intrinsically offensive language, it is how swearing use is indexed against a person’s understanding of local social norms that constructs swearing as offensive. This paper presents an analysis of swearing within a social context where high frequency… read more