Cursing in America
A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets
Seiten
1992
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-2092-9 (ISBN)
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-2092-9 (ISBN)
This volume examines 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 expression, gender stereotypes and offensiveness.
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.
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.
1. 1. What are Dirty Words?; 2. 2. When Children Use Dirty Words; 3. 3. Anger and Dirty Words; 4. 4. The Frequency of Dirty Word Usage; 5. 5. The Offensiveness of Words: Sex and Semantics; 6. 6. Free Speech and Censorship; 7. 7. Unfinished Business and Future Research with Dirty Words; 8. Bibliography
| Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 245 mm |
| Gewicht | 650 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-272-2092-1 / 9027220921 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-272-2092-9 / 9789027220929 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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