The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals

By Jean–Marc Dewaele. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning (2007, background): “California, Los Angeles Van Ek JA, Trim JLM (l991) Threshold Level 1990. Council of Europe Press, Strasbourg O’Sullivan JK (2007) Grammar Connection: Structure through Content.”
Sociodemographic, Psychological and Politicocultural Correlates in Flemish Students' Attitudes towards French and English (2005, background): “The extraverts’ inclination to take risks seems to extend to linguistic behaviour: extravert L2 learners were found to use significantly more colloquial vocabulary than their more introvert peers (Dewaele, 2004a).”
Emotion-memory effects in bilingual speakers: A levels-of-processing approach* (2009, background): “more easily expressed in the second language (Dewaele, 2004a; Dewaele, 2004b; Gonzalez-”
Memory for emotional words in bilinguals: Do words have the same emotional intensity in the first and in the second language? (2010, background): “There is a series of studies conducted by Dewaele ( 2004a ; 2004b ; 2006 ; 2008 ) that have focused on the bilinguals' use of emotional words and expressions.”
Rating Offensive Words in Three Television Program Contexts (2010, background): “The 7% of participants for whom English is a second language were excluded from further analysis ( n = 33) because nonnative speakers tend to have limited knowledge of curse words and use them infrequently, and in general, languages learned later in life have a weaker “emotional resonance” than tho”
Emotional activation in the first and second language (2007, background): “Given the strong intuitive notion held by most bilinguals that their first language (L1) words lead to higher emotional arousal compared to the second language (L2) words (ie, Dewaele, 2004 ) it is somewhat surprising that, until recently, very little research has been done to test this idea empiri”
The use of web questionnaires in second language acquisition and bilingualism research (2010, background): “The resulting database is extremely rich and provided empirical data for a good number of publications (Dewaele, 2004a; 2004b; 2005a; 2005b; 2006a; 2006b; 2007a; 2007b; 2007c; 2008; Dewaele et al., 2008; Pavlenko, 2004; 2005; 2006).”
When is a First Language More Emotional? Psychophysiological Evidence from Bilingual Speakers (2006, background): “Indeed, the starting point for the current research is an aspect of emotional responsiveness that is fairly uniform: bilingual speakers report usually experiencing greater emotional intensity when using swear words or taboo words in their first (or dominant) language compared to their second languag”
On Language Processing Shaping Decision Making (2017, background): “Indeed, foreign language use lowers emotional reactivity as, for example, shown by reduced electrodermal responses to swear words and childhood reprimands (Harris, Aycicegi, & Gleason, 2003; see Dewaele, 2004 for similar behavioral evidence).”