Swearing in the Nordic countries

Swearing and age  

The pragmatic functions of swearing by mother in English, Spanish and Norwegian teenage talk Ingrid Kristine Hasund, Eli-Marie Drange and Anna-Brita Stenström 

Attitudes to Danish swearwords and abusive terms in two generations Marianne Rathje  

Swearing in the media  

The use of English swear words in Swedish media Kristy Beers Fägersten  

Five decades of swearing on air in Lithuania Giedrius Tamaševičius  

Swearing in translation  

Lost in Translation? – Swearing in the Swedish millennium films and their German and Finnish translations Mona Enell-Nilsson  

Perkele – A literary companion. A glimpse at the function and frequency of the Finnish swearword in translated and non-translated contemporary fiction Minna Hjort  

Historical swearing  

In the company of the devil and Our Lord through three centuries. Swearing in Swedish dramas Ulla Stroh-Wollin  

Pragmatic dimensions of Swedish insults in the 1600s Erik Falk  

The vocabulary of Norwegian cursing and swearing - some of its history, meaning and function Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld