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January 1, 2015Intercultural Pragmatics

“Swear words” and “curse words” in Australian (and American) English. At the crossroads of pragmatics, semantics and sociolinguistics

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Abstract

This study seeks to show that Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) analytical techniques allow an integrated semantic-pragmatic approach to the use of “swear words” and “curse (cuss) words”. The paper begins with a semantic exegesis of the lexical items

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Cliff Goddard (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6abefa840ee057ae73b5aae6 https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2015-0010

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