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Nov 10, 2015 · No matter what age they start, the British seem far more fluent at swearing than Americans. They are more likely to link colourful language with having a sense of humour than with coarseness or ...
Nov 21, 2016 · In addition to status and sexuality, insults inflict shame by mentioning unappealing traits—fatness, shortness, baldness, spottiness, and contagious diseases. Another way of taking a person down ...
Dec 28, 2020 · Over the last decades, the use of explicit derogatory language (e.g., hate speech, slurs, micro-insults) has risen in many countries. We provide an overview on blatant language discrimination, including its psychological antecedents and consequences.
- Carmen Cervone, Martha Augoustinos, Anne Maass
- 2021
- Is Swearing Problematic Or Harmful?
- Is It Bad For Children to Hear Or Say Swear Words?
- Has Swearing Become More Frequent in Recent years?
- Do All People Swear?
Courts presume harm from speech in cases involving discrimination or sexual harassment. The original justification for our obscenity laws was predicated on an unfounded assumption that speech can deprave or corrupt children, but there is little (if any) social-science data demonstrating that a word in and of itself causes harm. A closely related pr...
The harm question for adult swearing applies to issues such as verbal abuse, sexual harassment, and discrimination. When children enter the picture, offensive language becomes a problem for parents and a basis for censorship in media and educational settings. Considering the ubiquity of this problem, it is interesting that psychology textbooks do n...
This is a very common question, and it’s a tough one to answer because we have no comprehensive, reliable baseline frequency data prior to the 1970s for comparison purposes. It is true that we are exposed to more forms of swearing since the inception of satellite radio, cable television, and the Internet, but that does not mean the average person i...
We can answer this question by saying that all competent English speakers learn how to swear in English. Swearing generally draws from a pool of 10 expressions and occurs at a rate of about 0.5 percent of one’s daily word output. However, it is not informative to think of how an average person swears: Contextual, personality, and even physiological...
- Timothy Jay and Kristin Janschewitz
- 2012
Nov 8, 2019 · For example, the second-most-offensive word according to the undergrads taking my survey this year is a different F-word – a three-letter slur used to disparage LGBTQ people. No. 4 is the R-word ...
- Benjamin Bergen
Feb 27, 2017 · The English language contains an alphabet soup of swear words. Those of a sweary disposition can draw upon the A-word, the B-word, the C-word, the F-word, the S-word, the W-word and many more.
Aug 10, 2024 · Swear words are derived from taboos — that's why "gadzooks" was once considered a swear word. Taken from "God's hooks", it refers to the nails used to put Jesus on the crucifix. "If you go back ...
