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Inside Language | Is swearing losing its cathartic effect? Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke about taboo words

Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke 17 January 2016 48 words

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The words we consider taboo are changing, but their purpose doesn’t seem to have changed. Linguist Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke in the third of a series of Inside Language .

This podcast contains language that might be offensive to some readers

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Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

Kate Burridge is professor of linguistics at Monash University. Peter Clarke is a Melbourne-based broadcaster, writer and educator who pioneered national talkback on Australian radio as the inaugural presenter of Offspring (now Life Matters) on ABC Radio National.

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