#1399 - Kristy Beers Fägersten

Kristy Beers Fägersten is professor of English linguistics at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research disciplines include pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and conversation analysis. Her publications feature analyses of the language of media and popular culture, with a special focus on language play, humor, and swearing. Kristy is the author of “Who’s Swearing Now?" which represents an investigation of how people actually swear, illustrated by a collection of over 500 spontaneous swearing utterances along with their social and linguistic contexts.

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