🇬🇧 **Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation**

"_Our observations are interpreted in the context of delexicalization and related long-term diachronic processes, whereby contemporary usage of fuck among teenagers is characterised in terms of semi-delexicalized, pragmatically strengthened usage with weakened taboo status._"

Love, R. and Stenstrom, A.-B. (2023) 'Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation,' Journal of Pragmatics, 216, pp. 167–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.08.008.

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