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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"swear words"”.
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THE LANDSCAPE OF AFFECTIVE MEANING
Swear words are highly colloquial expressions that have the capacity to sig- nal the speaker’s affective states, i.e., to display the speaker’s feelings with respect to a certain stimulus. For this reason, swear words are often called expressives. Which linguistic mechanisms allow swear words …
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For fuck's sake: Investigating the affective norms and auditory perception of British English taboo words
Swear words are paradoxically ubiquitous and taboo. Whilst there is evidence to suggest taboo stimuli are preferentially processed, most findings relate to visually presented stimuli, despite swear words being more frequently heard than read, and arguably more threatening when presented auditorily. …
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ISSUES IN THE SUBTITLING AND DUBBING OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILMS INTO ARABIC: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
… particular focus on the translation of dialect, swear words, and humour. Technical, linguistic and cultural issues constitute a challenge to Arabic translators who need to deal with: 1) the limitations on screen such as space, time, lip and character synchronizations; 2) the issue of rendering …
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Gender and metadiscourse in British and Saudi newspaper column writing: male/female and native/non-native differences in language use
… consists of 320 opinion columns totaling 273,773 words, selected from four elite newspapers. The columns were searched electronically using concordancing software programs and then all the metadiscourse devices were examined qualitatively in context to determine their actual functions. All …
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Swearing in a public place
Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt das Vorkommen von Schimpfwörtern auf der online Plattform "Reddit". Die drei zugrundeliegenden Forschungsfragen sind: Wie oft werden Schimpfwörter benutzt? Wie werden diese von den Lesern aufgenommen? Beeinflusst das Thema einer Konversation die Reaktion der Leser …