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In a witty and informative talk, Linguistics Professor, Geraldine Horan, takes us through why we swear and the creative ways in which we do so. Horan explores the various impacts of swearing, from being fined, to having an analgesic effect.

Dr Geraldine Horan is a Senior Lecturer in German Language and Linguistics at UCL. Her research focuses on gender and language, political discourse and taboo language, and she has published on a range of linguistic topics, including the language of Nazi women, the social function of cursing and swearing in English and German, and linguistic strategies of humour in the German parliament. In her current project she investigates the characteristics of anti-feminist discourse in the early twentieth century.

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