Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts
Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282] 2017. vi, 266 pp.
Kristy Beers Fägersten
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristy Beers Fägersten plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2022 Swearing Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), pp. 129–155 | Chapter
2021 Swear words for sale: The commodification of swearing Pragmatics and Society 12:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
Swearing has traditionally been associated with spoken language; however, swear words are appearing more often in print and, notably, explicitly featured in commercial products. In this paper, we consider this development an example of the commodification of swear words, or ‘swear words for… read more
2017 Chapter 3. FUCK CANCER, Fucking Åmål, Aldrig fucka upp: The standardisation of fuck in Swedish media Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts, Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton (eds.), pp. 65–86 | Chapter
2017 Introduction: Swearing research as variations on a theme Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts, Beers Fägersten, Kristy and Karyn Stapleton (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Chapter
2012 Intertextual quotation: References to media in family interaction The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 79–104 | Article
In this paper, I analyze conversations among family members whose appropriation of media texts represents conversational strategies whereby common ground is exploited for different purposes. In particular, intertextual quotation is shown to (1) allow participants to take evaluative stances towards… read more
2008 10. A corpus approach to discursive construction of hip-hop identity Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings, Ädel, Annelie and Randi Reppen (eds.), pp. 211–240 | Article
This chapter is an analysis of a 100,000-word corpus consisting of message-board postings on hip-hop websites. A discourse analysis of this corpus reveals three strategies employed by the posters to identify themselves as members of the hip-hop community in the otherwise anonymous setting of the… read more