Taboo language across the globe : a multi-lab study
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- Simone Sulpizio, Fritz Guenther, Linda Badan, Benjamin Basclain, Marc Brysbaert (UGent) , Yuen Lai Chan, Laura Anna Ciaccio, Carolin Dudschig, Jon Andoni Dunabeitia, Fabio Fasoli, Ludovic Ferrand, Dusica Filipovic Durdevic, Ernesto Guerra, Geoff Hollis, Remo Job, Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Hasibe Kahraman, Naledi Kgolo-Lotshwao, Sachiko Kinoshita, Julija Kos, Leslie Lee, Nala H. Lee, Ian Grant Mackenzie, Milica Manojlovic, Christina Manouilidou, Mirko Martinic, Maria del Carmen Mendez, Ksenija Misic, Natinee Na Chiangmai, Alexandre Nikolaev, Marina Oganyan, Patrice Rusconi, Giuseppe Samo, Chi-shing Tse, Chris Westbury, Peera Wongupparaj, Melvin J. Yap and Marco Marelli
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- Abstract
- The use of taboo words represents one of the most common and arguably universal linguistic behaviors, fulfilling a wide range of psychological and social functions. However, in the scientific literature, taboo language is poorly characterized, and how it is realized in different languages and populations remains largely unexplored. Here we provide a database of taboo words, collected from different linguistic communities (Study 1, N = 1046), along with their speaker-centered semantic characterization (Study 2, N = 455 for each of six rating dimensions), covering 13 languages and 17 countries from all five permanently inhabited continents. Our results show that, in all languages, taboo words are mainly characterized by extremely low valence and high arousal, and very low written frequency. However, a significant amount of cross-country variability in words' tabooness and offensiveness proves the importance of community-specific sociocultural knowledge in the study of taboo language.
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- EMOTION, WORDS, NORMS, EXPLETIVES, DECISION, VALENCE, AROUSAL, GENDER, Taboo words, Swearing, Semantics, Best-worst scaling, Emotion
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JD03F1WE2PB2K557SQ1CBVER
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- Sulpizio, Simone, et al. “Taboo Language across the Globe : A Multi-Lab Study.” BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS, vol. 56, no. 4, 2024, pp. 3794–813, doi:10.3758/s13428-024-02376-6.
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- Sulpizio, S., Guenther, F., Badan, L., Basclain, B., Brysbaert, M., Chan, Y. L., … Marelli, M. (2024). Taboo language across the globe : a multi-lab study. BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS, 56(4), 3794–3813. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02376-6
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- Sulpizio, Simone, Fritz Guenther, Linda Badan, Benjamin Basclain, Marc Brysbaert, Yuen Lai Chan, Laura Anna Ciaccio, et al. 2024. “Taboo Language across the Globe : A Multi-Lab Study.” BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS 56 (4): 3794–3813. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02376-6.
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- Sulpizio, Simone, Fritz Guenther, Linda Badan, Benjamin Basclain, Marc Brysbaert, Yuen Lai Chan, Laura Anna Ciaccio, Carolin Dudschig, Jon Andoni Dunabeitia, Fabio Fasoli, Ludovic Ferrand, Dusica Filipovic Durdevic, Ernesto Guerra, Geoff Hollis, Remo Job, Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Hasibe Kahraman, Naledi Kgolo-Lotshwao, Sachiko Kinoshita, Julija Kos, Leslie Lee, Nala H. Lee, Ian Grant Mackenzie, Milica Manojlovic, Christina Manouilidou, Mirko Martinic, Maria del Carmen Mendez, Ksenija Misic, Natinee Na Chiangmai, Alexandre Nikolaev, Marina Oganyan, Patrice Rusconi, Giuseppe Samo, Chi-shing Tse, Chris Westbury, Peera Wongupparaj, Melvin J. Yap, and Marco Marelli. 2024. “Taboo Language across the Globe : A Multi-Lab Study.” BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS 56 (4): 3794–3813. doi:10.3758/s13428-024-02376-6.
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- 1.Sulpizio S, Guenther F, Badan L, Basclain B, Brysbaert M, Chan YL, et al. Taboo language across the globe : a multi-lab study. BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS. 2024;56(4):3794–813.
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- [1]S. Sulpizio et al., “Taboo language across the globe : a multi-lab study,” BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 3794–3813, 2024.
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