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  1. 13 de set. de 2016 · P rofane words have a direct line to our emotions. They are a spontaneous reflection of strong emotional states, like anger, fear or passion. They are also unequaled in their capacity to inflict...

    • Benjamin Bergen
    • 46 seg
  2. 18 de out. de 2022 · Research in communication and linguistics has shown an array of distinctive social purposes of swearing – from expressing aggression and causing offence to social bonding, humour and story-telling....

  3. 6 de mar. de 2022 · Key points. Over the course of the history of English, what offends us has changed drastically. Swearing, cursing and obscenity are distinct forms of bad language. Profanity usually centers on...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ProfanityProfanity - Wikipedia

    Different languages and cultures construct swear words and phrases from violations of different social taboos, and many names for offensive language derive from the source topic. Profanity in the religious sense involves desecration of the sacred , whether by blasphemy or other words causing religious offense , such as taking the ...

  5. 19 de fev. de 2018 · Creating attention arises from the vulgarity of the language where the words make a statement and call attention to the issues through passionate and strong language. Sometimes this occurs as a form of dissent to discredit something that someone feels strongly against.

    • Melanie DeFrank, Patricia Kahlbaugh
    • 2019
  6. It implies that cursing is a form of compensation — that the only reason people use bad language is that they aren’t smart enough to express themselves properly.

  7. taboo. sacrilege. blasphemy. profanity, language that is considered socially offensive due to being vulgar, obscene, or irreverent. The term profanity is often used in a religious sense to refer to language that is blasphemous, sacrilegious, or sometimes merely secular.