Date:  Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:56:35 -0500
From:  Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: F word (was Re: redneck, nigger, good ole boy, kicker, etc.)

At 05:51 PM 10/28/97 EST, you wrote:
>Sidebar (or seque?)
>
>(For a student:) Could you recommend some fairly contemporary studies
>of taboo words in American English. Are there studies / articles
>of taboo words, esp *fuck*, as discourse markers?
>

Well, I'm not sure what angle you want to approach the topic from, but maybe
Jesse Sheidlower's _The F Word_ would help. Published a couple of years ago,
it treats many locutions and gives planty of dated & sourced usage citations.

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu