Cursing in America : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the...
Cursing in America : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the...
Cursing in America : a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards, and on the streets / by Timothy Jay.
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Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
Date
1992.
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T0383691
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English
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273 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. What are "Dirty" Words? -- Ch. 2. When Children Use Dirty Words -- Ch. 3. Anger and Dirty Words -- Ch. 4. The Fluency of Dirty Word Usage -- Ch. 5. The Offensiveness of Words: Sex and Semantics -- Ch. 6. Free Speech and Censorship -- Ch. 7. Unfinished Business and Future Research with Dirty W...
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Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
1992.
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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 severa...
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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 / by Timothy Jay.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-272) and index.
Transferred from N401.90973/2.
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T0383691
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1556194528 (pbk. : alk. paper)
902722093X (Eur. : pbk. : alk. paper)
155619451X (alk. paper)
9789027220929 (Eur. : alk. paper)
9027220921 (Eur. : alk. paper)
9781556194528 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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401.90973
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991020920799702626
