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Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contextsEdited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 282] 2017
► pp. 137–156
Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 282] 2017
► pp. 137–156
Chapter 6Gender and age differences in swearing
A corpus study of Twitter
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical framework
- 3.Corpus building
- 3.1Inferring gender
- 3.2Inferring age
- 4.Results
- 5.Conclusion
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