Ljung Magnus. Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study

Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. — xii, 190 pages. — SBN 978–0–230–57631–5.This book is a study of swearing, its shape, use and manifestations in English and a number of other languages. The discussion and many of the examples in the book are in English, but there will also be more or less extensive forays into a number of other languages, viz. Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Urdu. Although the data from these languages have been obtained in many different ways, my primary source of information has been interviews with native speakers based on the questionnaire presented in Appendix 2. The information obtained in this manner varied with the number of native speakers available and my account of swearing in the different languages makes no claim to completeness.Defining Swearing
A Typology of Swearing
History of Swearing
Expletive Interjections
Oaths, Emphatic Denials, Curses
Ritual Insults, Name-Calling, Unfriendly Suggestions
Degree, Dislike, Emphasis, Exasperation and Annoyance
Replacive Swearing