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A corpus-based study on the polysemy of the attributive adjective fucking

Tarland, Rasmus LU (2010) ENGK01 20102
English Studies
Abstract
While discussing the possibility of investigating the polysemy of an
English profanity as the topic for this essay, Dylan Glynn, who is
supervising this work, pointed to an (albeit old) edition of an Oxford
English Dictionary resting on a shelf in his office in order to look up the
definition[s] of the lexeme fuck. However, the entry was nowhere to be
found, and this only added to the interest of the topic. It is interesting how
a profane word, although as common as fuck, which both men and women
use frequently in speech and in written text, could be omitted from such a
large and respectable dictionary for the sole reason of it being ‘profane’,
‘taboo’, and was therefore seen as unfit for academia some 40 years ago.
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Tarland, Rasmus LU
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course
ENGK01 20102
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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language
English
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2760452
date added to LUP
2012-06-12 14:59:36
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2012-06-12 14:59:36
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  abstract     = {{While discussing the possibility of investigating the polysemy of an
English profanity as the topic for this essay, Dylan Glynn, who is
supervising this work, pointed to an (albeit old) edition of an Oxford
English Dictionary resting on a shelf in his office in order to look up the
definition[s] of the lexeme fuck. However, the entry was nowhere to be
found, and this only added to the interest of the topic. It is interesting how
a profane word, although as common as fuck, which both men and women
use frequently in speech and in written text, could be omitted from such a
large and respectable dictionary for the sole reason of it being ‘profane’,
‘taboo’, and was therefore seen as unfit for academia some 40 years ago.}},
  author       = {{Tarland, Rasmus}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{A corpus-based study on the polysemy of the attributive adjective fucking}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}