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verbal hygiene: a standalone construct

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Sociolinguistics

the everyday practice of trying to improve, regulate or clean up language use, studied as an expression of wider social and moral concerns.

In sociolinguistics, verbal hygiene refers to the everyday practice of trying to improve, regulate or clean up language use, studied as an expression of wider social and moral concerns. This meaning comes from Cameron (1995) in Verbal Hygiene.[1]

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Cameron, D. (1995). Verbal Hygiene. Routledge. ISBN 9781136342073

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