Mapping lexical dialect variation in British English using Twitter

J Grieve, C Montgomery, A Nini… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
There is a growing trend in regional dialectology to analyse large corpora of social media
data, but it is unclear if the results of these studies can be generalized to language as a …

Swear (ING) ain't play (ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable

M Hunt, C Cotter, H Pearson… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on
social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness …

The social meaning of swearing variation

M Hunt - 2022 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
This thesis is about linguistic variation in swearing and its consequences for how speakers
are socially evaluated. Abundant research has established that, beyond its perception as …