Cursing 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 Jay |
Autore | Jay Timothy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
Disciplina | 401/.9/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Obscene words - Psychological aspects - United States
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects - United States Words, Obscene - Psychological aspects - United States English language - United States - Obscene words Americanisms |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49738-6
9786613592613 90-272-7405-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Words Anger 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 Products Anger 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 Words Counting 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 Chapter Offensiveness versus Offendedness |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461433103321 |
Jay Timothy | ||
Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 / / Timothy Jay |
Autore | Jay Timothy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
Disciplina | 401/.9/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Obscene words - Psychological aspects - United States
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects - United States Words, Obscene - Psychological aspects - United States English language - United States - Obscene words Americanisms |
ISBN |
1-280-49738-6
9786613592613 90-272-7405-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Infants; The 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 Words Anger Expressed Through Cursing or Blasphemy; Anger 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 Products Anger Expressed Through References to Animals; Anger Expressed Through Reference 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 Words Counting Oral Frequency: Almost Good Enough; A 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 Chapter; Offensiveness versus Offendedness |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790203903321 |
Jay Timothy | ||
Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 / / Timothy Jay |
Autore | Jay Timothy |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
Disciplina | 401/.9/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Obscene words - Psychological aspects - United States
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects - United States Words, Obscene - Psychological aspects - United States English language - United States - Obscene words Americanisms |
ISBN |
1-280-49738-6
9786613592613 90-272-7405-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 Infants; The 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 Words Anger Expressed Through Cursing or Blasphemy; Anger 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 Products Anger Expressed Through References to Animals; Anger Expressed Through Reference 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 Words Counting Oral Frequency: Almost Good Enough; A 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 Chapter; Offensiveness versus Offendedness |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809827903321 |
Jay Timothy | ||
Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1992 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why we curse : a neuro-psycho-social theory of speech / / Timothy Jay |
Autore | Jay Timothy |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 401/.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Invective - Psychological aspects
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects Threat (Psychology) Verbal behavior |
ISBN |
1-282-16274-8
9786612162749 90-272-9848-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
WHY WE CURSE; Title page; LCC page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; PART I. Introduction to the Study of Cursing; Chapter 1. Tourette Syndrome and Coprolalia: The Need for a Theory; Chapter 2. Psycholinguistics and Cursing; Chapter 3. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Cursing; Chapter 4. Postulates of the NPS Theory; PART II. Neurological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 5. Propositional Speech, Nonpropositional Speech, and the Right Cerebral Hemisphere; Chapter 6. Emotional Speech and the Emotional Brain; Chapter 7. Anger and Verbal Aggression
Chapter 8. Coprolalia and Mental DisordersChapter 9. Neurological Control of Cursing; PART III. Psychological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 10. Psychological Aspects of Cursing; Chapter 11. Language Acquisition and Cognitive Growth; Chapter 12. Memory and Awareness of Cursing; Chapter 13. Personality, Religiosity, and Sexual Anxiety; Chapter 14. Speech Habits and Social Learning; Chapter 15. The Sexual Lexicon; Chapter 16. Syntax and Semantics; PART I V. Social and Cultural Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 17. Pragmatics and Cultural Contexts; Chapter 18. Speaker Power Chapter 19. Gender IdentityChapter 20. Slang; Chapter 21. Humor Elicitation; Chapter 22. Religion, Taboo Speech, and Word Magic; Chapter 23. Scatology and The Language of Disgust; Chapter 24. Customary Restrictions: From Etiquette To Law; Chapter 25. Evolving Language Standards; Chapter 26. Tourette Syndrome: Cross-Cultural Comparisons; PART V. Why Do We Swear? Why Do We Choose The Words We Do?; Chapter 27. Social and Legal Issues Involving Cursing; Chapter 28. Ignorance, Misinformation, and Fallacies about Cursing; Chapter 29. Future of Cursing Research; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811780103321 |
Jay Timothy | ||
Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why We Curse [[electronic resource] ] : A neuro-psycho-social theory of speech |
Autore | Jay Timothy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Soggetto topico |
Blessing and cursing -- Psychological aspects
Invective -- Psychological aspects Threat (Psychology) Verbal behavior |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-16274-8
9786612162749 90-272-9848-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
WHY WE CURSE; Title page; LCC page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; PART I. Introduction to the Study of Cursing; Chapter 1. Tourette Syndrome and Coprolalia: The Need for a Theory; Chapter 2. Psycholinguistics and Cursing; Chapter 3. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Cursing; Chapter 4. Postulates of the NPS Theory; PART II. Neurological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 5. Propositional Speech, Nonpropositional Speech, and the Right Cerebral Hemisphere; Chapter 6. Emotional Speech and the Emotional Brain; Chapter 7. Anger and Verbal Aggression
Chapter 8. Coprolalia and Mental DisordersChapter 9. Neurological Control of Cursing; PART III. Psychological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 10. Psychological Aspects of Cursing; Chapter 11. Language Acquisition and Cognitive Growth; Chapter 12. Memory and Awareness of Cursing; Chapter 13. Personality, Religiosity, and Sexual Anxiety; Chapter 14. Speech Habits and Social Learning; Chapter 15. The Sexual Lexicon; Chapter 16. Syntax and Semantics; PART I V. Social and Cultural Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 17. Pragmatics and Cultural Contexts; Chapter 18. Speaker Power Chapter 19. Gender IdentityChapter 20. Slang; Chapter 21. Humor Elicitation; Chapter 22. Religion, Taboo Speech, and Word Magic; Chapter 23. Scatology and The Language of Disgust; Chapter 24. Customary Restrictions: From Etiquette To Law; Chapter 25. Evolving Language Standards; Chapter 26. Tourette Syndrome: Cross-Cultural Comparisons; PART V. Why Do We Swear? Why Do We Choose The Words We Do?; Chapter 27. Social and Legal Issues Involving Cursing; Chapter 28. Ignorance, Misinformation, and Fallacies about Cursing; Chapter 29. Future of Cursing Research; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453873903321 |
Jay Timothy | ||
Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why We Curse [[electronic resource] ] : A neuro-psycho-social theory of speech |
Autore | Jay Timothy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 401 |
Soggetto topico |
Blessing and cursing -- Psychological aspects
Invective -- Psychological aspects Threat (Psychology) Verbal behavior |
ISBN |
1-282-16274-8
9786612162749 90-272-9848-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
WHY WE CURSE; Title page; LCC page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; PART I. Introduction to the Study of Cursing; Chapter 1. Tourette Syndrome and Coprolalia: The Need for a Theory; Chapter 2. Psycholinguistics and Cursing; Chapter 3. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Cursing; Chapter 4. Postulates of the NPS Theory; PART II. Neurological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 5. Propositional Speech, Nonpropositional Speech, and the Right Cerebral Hemisphere; Chapter 6. Emotional Speech and the Emotional Brain; Chapter 7. Anger and Verbal Aggression
Chapter 8. Coprolalia and Mental DisordersChapter 9. Neurological Control of Cursing; PART III. Psychological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 10. Psychological Aspects of Cursing; Chapter 11. Language Acquisition and Cognitive Growth; Chapter 12. Memory and Awareness of Cursing; Chapter 13. Personality, Religiosity, and Sexual Anxiety; Chapter 14. Speech Habits and Social Learning; Chapter 15. The Sexual Lexicon; Chapter 16. Syntax and Semantics; PART I V. Social and Cultural Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 17. Pragmatics and Cultural Contexts; Chapter 18. Speaker Power Chapter 19. Gender IdentityChapter 20. Slang; Chapter 21. Humor Elicitation; Chapter 22. Religion, Taboo Speech, and Word Magic; Chapter 23. Scatology and The Language of Disgust; Chapter 24. Customary Restrictions: From Etiquette To Law; Chapter 25. Evolving Language Standards; Chapter 26. Tourette Syndrome: Cross-Cultural Comparisons; PART V. Why Do We Swear? Why Do We Choose The Words We Do?; Chapter 27. Social and Legal Issues Involving Cursing; Chapter 28. Ignorance, Misinformation, and Fallacies about Cursing; Chapter 29. Future of Cursing Research; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782534603321 |
Jay Timothy | ||
Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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