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C U Next Tuesday: A Good Look at Bad Language
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London, UK (Independent): In this book, applied linguist Ruth Wajnryb takes a swipe at academic linguists, who have amassed a mountain of comment on such topics as inflection in English verbs but who have shown little interest in a human phenomenon like swearing. An Australian, she proves to have a comprehensive knowledge of the taboo lexicon, and lots of interesting things to say about it, dealing briskly with such topics as blasphemy, scatology, sexual attitudes and the anthropology of abuse.
“C U Next Tuesday: A Good Look at Bad Language” (Aurum, £14.99)
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