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Among the New Words

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: content warning: Please note that this edition of "Among the New Words" covers banned words and taboo topics, including discussions of self-harm, eating disorders, suicide, rape, abortion, hate speech, sex work, and drug use in topical paragraphs and in personal accounts of these topics in the publicly posted examples included as evidence of usage in the full lexicographical treatments in the online supplement.Readers who are sensitive to these topics are advised to skip those sections.

Source: American Speech

DOI: 10.1215/00031283-11186920

Authors: Brianne Hughes, Kendra Calhoun, Alexia Fawcett, Kelly E. Wright, Benjamin Zimmer, Emily Brewster, Jaidan McLean, Lynn Zhang

Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Santa Barbara, Virginia Tech, University of Oregon

Language: English

Topic: Lexicography and Language Studies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4393925939

FWCI: 1.65

Cites: 3

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10