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1. journals.sagepub.com › doi › pdfThe Power of Profanity: The Meaning and Impact of Swear Words ...

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   swear words and are stronger for uncensored and euphemistic swear words (e.g., darn) than censored swear words (e.g., d*mn). Overall, swear words in reviews provide value to readers—and review platforms—because they efficiently and effectively convey two meanings. Keywords profanity, word of mouth, review, meaning, linguistics

2. www.researchgate.net › publication › 336434573(PDF) Swearing and cursing: Contexts and practices in ...

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   Jan 1, 2020 · PDF | On Jan 1, 2020, Joseph T Farquharson and others published Swearing and cursing: Contexts and practices in critical linguistic perspective | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

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   Should swear words be censored?

   • We expect a censored (vs. uncensored) swear word to be less diagnostic of attribute strength and feeling strength because it has a more positive connotation and does not break a taboo. It should therefore have a lower impact on readers’ products attitudes. However, there should be no difference between a euphemistic and an uncensored swear word.

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   Is swearing a phonology?

   • An initial suggestion is that the power of swearing may reside in the phonology/structural properties of the words themselves. Indeed, there may well be some commonality among the sound/phoneme types; for example, the use of plosives is characteristic of many swear words ( Stephens et al., 2018, Vallery and Lemmens, 2021 ).

   The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t

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   Are swear words a linguistic power?

   • Rebecca Roache ( 2016) Swear words have a unique linguistic power. Swearing in public is illegal in many countries and profanity is a major target for censorship in the arts and entertainment industries (Bergen, 2016 ).

   The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity?

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4. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleThe power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t ...

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   Oct 1, 2022 · The novel swear words (fouch and twizpipe) resembled conventional swear words in their lexical form and moreover, were rated by participants as both emotion-arousing and distracting. However, in contrast to conventional swear words, the novel swear words did not produce a hypoalgesic effect in cold pressor experiments, thus demonstrating that ...

5. link.springer.com › article › 10The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in ...

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   In Study 1, native speakers of various languages (Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Spanish; N = 215) judged foreign words less likely to be swear words if they contained an approximant. In Study 2 we found that sanitized versions of English swear words – like darn instead of damn – contain significantly more approximants than the ...

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7. assets.cambridge.org › 97805215 › 25640Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language

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   This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are ‘sweet talking’, ‘straight talking’ or being deliberately rude.

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8. www.mdpi.com › 2226-471X › 9/4/128Censorship and Taboo Maintenance in L1 and LX Swearing - MDPI

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   Apr 1, 2024 · While the public use of English-language swear words may be subject to censorship in Anglophone contexts, it is not censored to the same extent in LX contexts. On the other hand, L1 swear words are censored.

9. link.springer.com › content › pdfThe sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity?

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   In an initial, pilot study we explored statistical regularities in the sounds of swear words across a range of typologically distant languages. The best candidate for a cross-linguistic phonemic pattern in profanity was the absence of approximants (sonorous sounds like l, r, w and y).