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Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship. Rigorous, scholarly investigation of the practice of swearing acknowledges its social and cultural significance, and allows us to discover and better understand the historical, psychological, sociological, and linguistic aspects (among others) of swearwords and swearword usage. The present volume brings together a range of themes and issues central to the existing knowledge of swearing and considers these in two key 'new' arenas, that is, in languages other than English, and/or in contexts and media other than spoken interaction. Many of the chapters analysed are based on large and robust collections of data, such as corpora or questionnaire responses, which allow for patterns of swearing to emerge. In other chapters, personally observed instances of swearing comprise the focus, allowing for a close analysis of the relationship between sociolinguistic context and pragmatic function. In each chapter, the cultural aspects of swearing are considered, ultimately affirming the importance of the study of swearing, and further establishing the legitimacy of swearing as a target of research.

Obscene words --- Obscenities (Words) --- Words, Obscene --- Obscenity (Aesthetics) --- Word (Linguistics) --- Slang --- Social aspects --- Research. --- Psychological aspects --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Language and culture --- Languages, Modern --- Psycholinguistics. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Swearing

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Classical Greek language --- Drama --- Classical Greek literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Sex in literature --- Words, Obscene, in literature --- Sex --- Greek drama (Comedy) --- Greek language --- Scatology in literature --- Terminology --- History and criticism --- Obscene words --- -Greek language --- -Scatology in literature --- -Sex in literature --- Obscene words in literature. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Words, Obscene, in literature. --- Scatology in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Obscene words. --- Terminology. --- Sex - Terminology --- Greek drama (Comedy) - History and criticism --- Greek language - Obscene words

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Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, Swearing in English explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern attitudes to bad language. Drawing on a variety of methodologies including historical research and corpus linguistics, and a range of data such as corpora, dramatic texts, early modern newsbooks and television, Tony McEnery takes a socio-histo

Sociolinguistics --- Historical linguistics --- English language --- Dialectology --- obscene woorden. --- scheldwoorden. --- slang. --- vloeken. --- Corpus linguistics. --- Corpuslinguïstiek. --- Engelse taal --- Swearing --- Power (Social sciences) --- Words, Obscene --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Profanity --- Cant --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Obscene words. --- Slang. --- Obscene words --- English --- Slang --- English language Slang --- Germanic languages --- English language Obscene words

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Who uses dirty words? And when? How is the bad language we use reflected in the movies, in the courts, and elsewhere? With Cursing in America, psychologist Timothy Jay presents the first serious and extensive examination of American profanity from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. An amazing amount of factual data gathered through several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments reveals the relationship between cursing and language acquisition, anger expression, gender stereotypes and offensiveness. Sexual harassment, censorship, language content of film, obscene phone calls and cursing at public schools are some of the topics which are analyzed and related to the data. Word-by-word tables demonstrate the influence that factors such as frequency of occurrence, degree of offensiveness, and gender and age of the speaker have on obscene language usage in America today

Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- English language --- Psycholinguistique --- --Langue anglaise --- --Juron --- --Sociolinguistique --- --États-Unis --- --English language --- Blessing and cursing --- Words, Obscene --- Americanisms --- Obscene words --- Psychological aspects --- #SBIB:309H517 --- Verbale communicatie: sociale psychologie van de taal en de interactie, psycholinguistiek --- Americanisms. --- Obscene words. --- Obscenities (Words) --- Obscenity (Aesthetics) --- Word (Linguistics) --- Slang --- Germanic languages --- Cursing and blessing --- Execration --- Imprecation --- Malediction --- Incantations --- Provincialisms --- Dialects --- Américanismes --- Bénédiction et malédiction --- Anglais (Langue) --- Mots obscènes --- Aspect psychologique --- Langue anglaise --- Juron --- Sociolinguistique --- États-Unis