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A Psycholinguistic Study of Dirty Language in the Courts, in the Movies, in the Schoolyards and on the Streets
John Benjamins Publishing Company
April 1992
272 pages
ISBN: 1556194528
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Non-Fiction
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.
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