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Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with fa

This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstra

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals f

THE STORY: A comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal American search for roots. Jasiu (thirtyish) is a Polish-American who has been taught not to value his

This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the