Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language

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.
Country USA
Brand Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Manufacturer John Benjamins Publishing Company
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781556194528
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Manufacturer	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781556194528
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets