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Anthropology class takes on bad language

Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Iowa Alumni Magazine
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/apr12/badwords.cfm

Students examine cultural roots of language taboos, from 'dirty words' to scorned dialects.

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