The Pleasure and Pain in Taboo Exploitation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Allan (0000-0002-1336-6154, Monash University, corresponding author), Keith Allan |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages8030208 |
| OpenAlex | W4386410289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
The taboo exploitation examined in this essay is swearing. Swearing intersects in complex ways with the giving and taking of pleasure and concomitantly coping with pain or, conversely, craving to inflict pain. Swearing is normally restricted to colloquial styles because it is commonly perceived to breach the rules of courtesy by offending against standards of good taste and good manners. The breaking of this taboo is an emotional release. Swearing has a special place in our neural anatomy, perhaps accounting for: (a) its effectiveness displaying pleasure and managing pain or the hypoalgesia and other physiological effects in laboratory studies; (b) for the tendency of any disparaging denotation or connotation to dominate the interpretation of the immediate context. I recognize five frequently synchronous functions for swearing from the utterer's as well as the audience point of view: (i) The expletive function, often marking attitude to what is said. (ii) Abuse, insult, banter. (iii) Spicing up the message. (iv) Expression of social solidarity. (v) The discourse function. There is an additional from an audience point of view: (vi) Characterizing an individual's behavior. For every function, the degree of pleasure and/or pain and the kind of taboo exploitation is assessed
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Insult · Linguistics · Pleasure · Political science · Psychotherapist · Solidarity · Taboo · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use
Cursing in America
Forbidden Words
Swearing in Modern British English
Emotionality and perceptual defense.
The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language
Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy
Behavioural and physiological responses to the emotional and taboo Stroop tasks in native and non-native speakers of English
Wicked” women in contemporary pop culture
The role of swearing in creating an online persona
Conceptual metaphors in taboo-induced lexical variation
Does Emotional Arousal Influence Swearing Fluency
Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives
Expletives as solidarity signals in FTAs on the factory floor
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |