Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets
Author:   Timothy Jay (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
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9781556194511


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 January 1992
Format:   Hardback
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Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets


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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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Author:   Timothy Jay (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781556194511


ISBN 10:   155619451
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 January 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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