“Swear words” and “curse words” in Australian (and American) English. At the crossroads of pragmatics, semantics and sociolinguistics

Goddard, Cliff

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“…The cultural scripts approach has been successfully applied by Wierzbicka's colleagues to various languages and language varieties, such as Australian English and other varieties of English (Goddard 2012(Goddard , 2015(Goddard , 2016, African languages (Ameka 2006), Chinese (Ye 2004(Ye , 2013, Korean (Yoon 2004), Singapore English (Wong 2004(Wong , 2014, Russian (Gladkova 2010a(Gladkova , b, 2013a(Gladkova , b, 2017, Japanese (Asano-Cavanagh 2016, Hasada 2006), Danish (Levisen 2012(Levisen , 2013, French (Peeters 2013(Peeters , 2014, Italian (Farese 2018), among others.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Теория культурных скриптов была успешно применена коллегами А. Вежбицкой к различным языкам, среди которых австралийский английский и другие варианты английского языка (Goddard 2012(Goddard , 2015(Goddard , 2016, сингапурский английский (Wong, 2004(Wong, , 2014, африканские языки (Ameka 2006), китайский язык (Ye 2004), корейский (Yoon 2004), русский (Гладкова 2010b(Гладкова , Gladkova 2010c(Гладкова , 2013a(Гладкова , b, 2017, японский (Asano-Cavanagh 2016, Hasada 2006), датский (Levisen 2012(Levisen , 2013, французский (Peeters 2013(Peeters , 2014, итальянский (Farese 2018) и др.…”

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Anna Wierzbicka, language, culture and communication

Gladkova

Larina

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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The Introductory article to the second part of the Special Issue dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka's anniversary focuses on her research in the domain of language and culture interchange. It overviews the fundamental concepts of Wierzbicka's research program, those of cultural keywords and cultural scripts within the cultural semantics and ethnopragmatics paradigm. As is the case with other Wierzbicka's linguistic studies, the analysis involves representation of meaning in terms of universal human concepts of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). The article also discusses the concept of Minimal Language as a recent development in the NSM programme and associated research into various fields.

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Section: The Cultural Scripts Approachmentioning

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Anna Wierzbicka, language, culture and communication

Gladkova

Larina

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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“…Many linguists argue that swearing falls into the pragmatic territory rather than semantic [6]. The matter thing of utterances is not only the natural syntax of utterances, but also the manner in which the utterances are delivered.…”

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Swear Words among Males: The Social Functions and Pragmatic Meanings

Setiawan¹,

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2018

Proceedings of the 2nd Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference: Establishing Identities Through Language, Culture,

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Swearing at some stage is similar to cursing; a linguistic activity utilizing taboo words to express strong emotions. Traditionally, swear words contain taboo and offensive expressions. Thus, the users are negatively judged and labeled. Are swear words always negatively framed? This paper tries to prove that such expressions do not only convey negative sense but also provide diverse functions and meanings. Dual mode of communicative data was gained; spoken and written. Besides, direct and virtual interviews were conducted to reveal the males' underlying reasons for swearing. The results may indicate that the use of swear words carries social functions, namely: intraindividual and interindividual which are reflected into cathartic, abusive, emphatic, idiomatic, and dysphemistic swearing. Nonetheless, cathartic and abusive searing are mostly committed. Another finding, pragmatically, swears words are bound by context. They can reflect not only the user's anger but also happiness and even solidarity. The other finding is that males swear more frequently in the presence of a group consisting of their own gender. All these evidence might be a gentle warning on the effect of what one produces and the wise interpretation upon one produces. When these are taken into account, living in harmony is created.

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“…This study focuses on the semantic referents of swear words in an English movie entitled Bad Boys II. The underlying reason for this study is that the use of swear words is often taken connotatively rather than denotatively (Wajnryb, 2005;Goddard, 2015). It is also the reason why there are relatively few semantic studies on swear words.…”

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“…It is also the reason why there are relatively few semantic studies on swear words. Goddard (2015) states that most linguists consider swearing to belong to the field of pragmatics rather than semantics. It can also be assumed that people who only imitate English swear words do not really understand the literal meanings of the swear words that they utter.…”

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2018

LLT Journal

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English movies have become a medium for the global spread of English swear words. However, not all people from non-English speaking countries know and understand the literal meanings of these words. This qualitative research aims to figure out the semantic referents of swear words in the film Bad Boys II. Content analysis was employed as its method. The results of this study show that nine semantic referents of swear words were used in the movie, namely sexual references, profane or blasphemous, scatological and disgusting objects, animal names, ethnic-racial-gender slurs, psychological-physical-social deviations, ancestral allusions, substandard vulgar terms, and offensive slang. Thus, Bad Boys II has a vast variety of swear words.

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“Swear words” and “curse words” in Australian (and American) English. At the crossroads of pragmatics, semantics and sociolinguistics

Abstract: This study seeks to show that Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) analytical techniques allow an integrated semantic-pragmatic approach to the use of “swear words” and “curse (cuss) words”. The paper begins with a semantic exegesis of the lexical items

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Swear Words among Males: The Social Functions and Pragmatic Meanings

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