Expletive Deleted [microform] : A Study of Language Usage / Nick Nykodym and John A. Boyd
- Bib ID:
- 5288831
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Nykodym, Nick
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED108267
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1975
- 16 p.
- Summary:
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The research findings of profane language usage need to be extended so that more may be learned about human communication. In order to establish profane language usage norms, eighty-six university students were asked to estimate their profane language usage in each of three categories (excretory, religious, and sexual) in reference to three general social situations (sex relationships, friendships, and public-private situations) and three specific categories (same or opposite sex; alone, close friends, and strangers; and private, semipublic, and public). Results of the tests showed that excretory profanity is used more than religious or sexual, that profanity occurs at a higher frequency when a person is alone, and that less profanity is used in the presence of strangers than in other situations. (Tables of findings and a list of references are included.) (JM)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (Chicago, April, 1975).
- Educational level discussed: Higher Education.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Boyd, John A, author
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1975
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