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Taboo language and impoliteness. / Culpeper, Jonathan.
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. ed. / Keith Allan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. p. 28-40.

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Culpeper, J 2018, Taboo language and impoliteness. in K Allan (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 28-40. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808190.013.2

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Culpeper, J. (2018). Taboo language and impoliteness. In K. Allan (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language (pp. 28-40). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808190.013.2

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Culpeper J. Taboo language and impoliteness. In Allan K, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. p. 28-40 doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808190.013.2

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Culpeper, Jonathan. / Taboo language and impoliteness. The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language. editor / Keith Allan. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. 28-40

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