Title

"Your mum! "Teenagers' swearing by mother in English, Spanish and Norwegian.

Authors

Drange, Eli-Marie Danbolt; Hasund, Ingrid Kristine; Stenström, Anna-Brita

Abstract

The article compares the teenagers' use of swearing by mother (SBM) in three audio-recorded corpora including Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid, the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language and the Språkkontakt och Ungdomsspråk i Norden. It discusses the differences of ritual insults, name-calling, expletive interjections and intensifiers. The study showed that SBM was more common in Spanish than English and Norwegian which might due to strong taboo on whore mother.

Subjects

SWEARING (Profanity); ADVERBS; CORPORA; SPANISH language; ENGLISH language; NORWEGIAN language; CONTRASTIVE linguistics

Publication

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 1, p29

ISSN

1384-6655

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1075/ijcl.19.1.02dra