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THE LANDSCAPE OF AFFECTIVE MEANING
Swear words are highly colloquial expressions that have the capacity to sig- nal the speaker’s affective states, i.e., to display the speaker’s feelings with respect to a certain stimulus. For this reason, swear words are often called expressives. Which linguistic mechanisms allow swear words …