That Bloody Museum’s So Crap!! Change and Decline in the Use of Bloody in British Teen Talk
Journal of English Linguistics
Published online on June 23, 2026
Abstract
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This study examines the use, evolution, and pragmatic functions ofbloodyin British teen talk from the 1990s to 2016. Drawing on spoken data from four corpora representing different time periods, the findings reveal a marked decline in the use ofbloody...
This study examines the use, evolution, and pragmatic functions ofbloodyin British teen talk from the 1990s to 2016. Drawing on spoken data from four corpora representing different time periods, the findings reveal a marked decline in the use ofbloody...