Cursing in America (eBook)

A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets

North Adams Timothy (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Massachusetts) Jay (Autor)

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1992
272 Seiten
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-90-272-7405-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes, semantics, and offensiveness. Censorship, language content of motion pictures, First-Amendment fighting words, sexual harassment, obscene phone calls, and cursing at public schools are analyzed and related to sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic data. Many tables of word-by-word data provide empirical evidence of frequency of occurrence, degree of offensiveness, gender of speaker and age of speaker influences on obscene language usage in America. A "must" for language reference collections.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.1992
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 90-272-7405-3 / 9027274053
• ISBN-13: 978-90-272-7405-2 / 9789027274052