By Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
ISBN-10: 1350024260
ISBN-13: 9781350024267
ISBN-10: 1472596528
ISBN-13: 9781472596529
The quantity displays at the social and communicative services that sexual metaphors practice in a pattern of just about 2 hundred postings taken from web boards. How do humans take into consideration intercourse? How do humans keep away from conversing approximately intercourse? How do humans paraphrase sexual subject matters? It deals an account of the way genuine language clients comprehend sexual taboo in present-day English and in addition an exceptional grounding in handbook corpus paintings on a qualitative level.
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