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Eastern Michigan University
The use of <i>fuck</i>: A sociolinguistic approach to the usage of <i>fuck</i> in the BNC and blog authorship corpus
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The present study is a corpus-based approach using both the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Blog Authorship Corpus (BAC) to identify variance in spoken use of <em>fuck</em> between genders, age groups, and social classes. The resulting analysis shows that there is little variance in use between male and female speakers, while use is most prevalent during the teens and early 20s. This study offers further support of the idea that there are two distinct meanings of <em>fuck</em> that can be separated into two distinct words, <em>fuck1</em> and <em>fuck2</em>, by showing that a non-referential definition of <em>fuck</em> (<em>fuck2</em>) is the dominant use between all genders, ages, and social classes.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Open Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English Language and Literature
- Year dc:date.available
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Howe, Ryan
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Veronica Grondona, Ph.D., Chair
- Helen Aristar-Dry, Ph.D.
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://commons.emich.edu/theses/413
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-1782