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| ISBN: | 9789027274052
9027274053
6613592617
9786613592613
1280497386
9781280497384
155619451X
9781556194511
9027220921
9789027220929
1556194528
9781556194528
902722093X
9789027220936
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-272) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Jay, Timothy. Cursing in America. Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992 155619451X
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