What the Fuck is Swearing?
Professor Magnus Ljung of the University of Stockholm, a respected expert on swearing, in 2011 published
Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study, in which he defines swearing, based upon his study of
thousands of examples and what they had in common, as:
- The use of taboo words like ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’,
- Which aren’t used literally,
- Which are fairly formulaic,
- And which are emotive: swearing sends a signal about the speaker’s state of mind.
Is Swearing Good For You?
"You said, 'fuck, fucked or fucking' five times in one sentence..." - movie Love and a 45
Languages are dominated by either religious swearing, copulatory swearing or excretory swearing. The fourth
category refers to slur-based swearing, but so far I haven’t come across any languages that are dominated
by slurs. There are languages whose most frowned upon taboos include animal names.
Swear words are words people use when they are highly emotional and words that refer to something taboo.
Swearing is a complex social signal that is laden with emotional and cultural significance.
https://tppahanshilhorst.com/2018/08/17/swearing-is-good-for-you-the-amazing-science-of-bad-language-emma-byrne/
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Swearing: A Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study, in which he defines swearing, based upon his study of
thousands of examples and what they had in common, as:
- The use of taboo words like ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’,
- Which aren’t used literally,
- Which are fairly formulaic,
- And which are emotive: swearing sends a signal about the speaker’s state of mind.
Is Swearing Good For You?
"You said, 'fuck, fucked or fucking' five times in one sentence..." - movie Love and a 45
Languages are dominated by either religious swearing, copulatory swearing or excretory swearing. The fourth
category refers to slur-based swearing, but so far I haven’t come across any languages that are dominated
by slurs. There are languages whose most frowned upon taboos include animal names.
Swear words are words people use when they are highly emotional and words that refer to something taboo.
Swearing is a complex social signal that is laden with emotional and cultural significance.
https://tppahanshilhorst.com/2018/08/17/swearing-is-good-for-you-the-amazing-science-of-bad-language-emma-byrne/
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