05840nam 2200721 a 450 991046143310332120200520144314.01-280-49738-6978661359261390-272-7405-3(CKB)2670000000151247(EBL)861545(OCoLC)777549402(SSID)ssj0000633916(PQKBManifestationID)11397838(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000633916(PQKBWorkID)10621732(PQKB)10262041(MiAaPQ)EBC861545(Au-PeEL)EBL861545(CaPaEBR)ebr10534213(CaONFJC)MIL359261(EXLCZ)99267000000015124719920214d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCursing in America[electronic resource] a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets /by Timothy JayPhiladelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.19921 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55619-451-X 90-272-2092-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-272) and index.CURSING IN AMERICA; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; Chapter 1. What Are ""Dirty"" Words?; Cursing; Profanity; Blasphemy; Taboo; Obscenity; Vulgarity; Slang; Epithets; Insults and slurs; Scatology; What Is the Value of Classification?; Connotative and Denotative Usage; Colorful Metaphors; Context is critical; Time perspective; Summary; Chapter 2. When Children Use Dirty Words; Language Development; The Language of Infancy (Birth to Two Years); Anger and Dirty Words in Infancy; The Origins of Humor; Pre-School Humor.Some Final Thoughts About InfantsThe Language of Childhood (Two to Eleven Years); Childhood Humor; Elementary School Humor.; Childhood Name Calling and Insulting; Object Naming; Childhood Story Telling; From Childhood to Adolescence: Final Thoughts; Two General Issues of Sex Talk and Language at School; The ""Etiquette"" of Dirty Words and Sex Talk; Conclusions About Sex Talk; The Issue of Dirty Language at School; The Emergence of an Obscene Lexicon; Field Study One; Field Study Two: Summer Camp (Hall & Jay, 1988); Summary of Field Studies; Conclusion; Chapter 3. Anger and Dirty WordsAnger Expressed Through Cursing or BlasphemyAnger Expressed Through Reference to Subnormal Thought; Anger Expressed Through Obscenity; Anger Expressed Through Reference to a Sex Organ; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Deviant Sexual Act; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Being Sexually Violated; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Social-Sexual Deviation; Anger Expressed Through Racial-Ethnic Reference; Anger Expressed Through Scatology; Anger Expressed Through Reference to Body Product or Process; Anger Expressed Through Items Associated with Body ProductsAnger Expressed Through References to AnimalsAnger ExpressedThroughReference to Animal Feces; The Context of Anger Expression; Social-Physical Setting; Speaker-Listener Variable; Discussion; The Etiquette of Anger Expression with Taboo Words; A Five-Stage Model of Anger; Stage 1: The Offending Event; Stage 2: The Degree of Anger; Stage 3: Attempts to Control Anger; Stage 4: Loss of Control; Stage 5: Retribution; The Value of Expressing Anger; Summary; Chapter 4. The Frequency of Dirty Word Usage; Why Word Frequency?; The Frequency Estimation Problem: Why There Are No Dirty WordsCounting Oral Frequency: Almost Good EnoughA Frequency Count of Students' Colloquial English (Jay, 1980a); College Sample of Dirty Words; Elementary School Dirty Words; Discussion; Field Studies Versus Laboratory Studies; A Field Study of Offensive Speech; The Contextual Approach; Method; Results; Discussion; Laboratory Studies of Offensive Speech; Jay 1977 Ratings; Method; Results; The Massachusetts Study (1978); Word List; Method; Results; A Matter of Semantics; Of Words and Deeds; Conclusion; Chapter 5. The Offensiveness of Words: Sex and Semantics; Purpose of the ChapterOffensiveness versus OffendednessThis 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 eviEnglish languageObscene wordsPsychological aspectsUnited StatesBlessing and cursingPsychological aspectsUnited StatesWords, ObscenePsychological aspectsUnited StatesEnglish languageUnited StatesObscene wordsAmericanismsElectronic books.English languageObscene wordsPsychological aspectsBlessing and cursingPsychological aspectsWords, ObscenePsychological aspectsEnglish languageObscene words.Americanisms.401/.9/0973Jay Timothy534396MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461433103321Cursing in America2032044UNINA