Swearing Is Good for You

by Emma Byrne

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  Chapter 7: Schieße, Merde, Cachau: Swearing in Other Languages

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  2. J. Dewaele, Blistering Barnacles! What Language Do Multilinguals Swear In?! Estudios de Sociolingüística 5 (2004), 83–105, at pp. 84–85.

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  4. C. L. Harris, A. Ayçiçeği, and J. B. Gleason, Taboo Words and Reprimands Elicit Greater Autonomic Reactivity in a First Language Than in a Second Language. Applied Psycholinguistics 24 (2003), 561–579. doi:10.1017/S0142716403000286.

  5. S. G. Kellman, The Translingual Imagination. University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

  6. S. Ervin, Language and TAT Content in Bilinguals. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 68 (1964), 500–7.

  7. S. Ervin-Tripp, An Analysis of the Interaction of Language, Topic, and Listener. American Anthropologist 66 (1964), 86–102.

  8. J. Dewaele, The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 25 (2004), 204–222. doi:10.1080/01434630408666529.

  9. J. Altarriba and D. M. Basnight-Brown, The Representation of Emotion vs. Emotion-Laden Words in English and Spanish in the Affective Simon Task. International Journal of Bilingualism 15 (2010), 310–328. doi:10.1177/1367006910379261.

  10. A. Ayçiçeği and C. Harris, BRIEF REPORT Bilinguals’ Recall and Recognition of Emotion Words. Cognition and Emotion 18 (2004), 977–987. doi:10.1080/02699930341000301.

  11. Kellman, The Translingual Imagination.

  12. Dewaele, The Emotional Force of Swearwords.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Dewaele, Blistering Barnacles!

  15. Dewaele, The Emotional Force of Swearwords.

  16. M. M. Chavez, The Orientation of Learner Language Use in Peer Work: Teacher Role, Learner Role and Individual Identity. Language Teaching Research 11 (2007), 161–188. doi:10.1177/1362168807074602.

  17. Dewaele, Investigating the Psychological and Emotional Dimensions in Instructed Language Learning.

  18. R.-E. Mercury, Swearing: A “Bad” Part of Language; A Good Part of Language Learning. TESL Canada Journal 13 (1995), 28–36. doi:10.18806/tesl.v13i1.659.

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  21. A. M. Fernández Dobao, Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of the Translation of Swearing: The Spanish Version of Pulp Fiction. Babel 52 (2006), 222–242. doi:10.1075/babel.52.3.02fer.

  22. J. Green, An Experiment in English. Harper’s Magazine, September 1941, pp. 397–405.

  23. Dewaele, Blistering Barnacles!

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