Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present

By A. McEnery. 2004

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Collocations in context:a new perspective on collocation networks (2015, methodology): “In a case study using data from McEnery’s (2006a) study of the Society for the Reformation of Manners Corpus (SRMC), we demonstrate that collocation networks provide important insights into meaning relationships in language.”
From key words to key semantic domains (2008, methodology): “Despite this, high frequency words are of interest to some (Sinclair 1999) and do lead to important findings (McEnery 2005:170) so they should not be omitted automatically , for example by using stop-list filters.”
Politeness and impoliteness (2011, unknown): “Haugh (2007b) argues that the Conjoint Co-Constituting Model of Communication (Arundale e.g. 1999, 2006) has much to offer as a framework for the study of politeness, "as it is consistent with a conceptualization of (im)politeness as being interactionally achieved in a collaborative, non-summative…”