Essays about: "expletive"

Found 4 essays containing the word expletive.

  1. 1. Gender differences in swearing in American sitcom: types and reasons

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tanzima Mahmud; [2023]
    Keywords : Swearing; swear words; gender roles; television sitcoms;

    Abstract : The essay is a study on gender differences in the use of swearing on television. Data collected for the thesis is from the American sitcom Shameless. The work of Lakoff (1975) on women’s language and Stapleton’s (2010) study done on gender differences on the use of expletive in both genders are drawn on as the theoretical considerations. READ MORE

  3. 2. Bad Language in Reality: A study of swear words, expletives and gender in reality television

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Anna Fälthammar Schippers; [2014-04-28]
    Keywords : Engelska; swear words; expletives; covert prestige; gender; reality television;

    Abstract : This essay is a study on swearing in modern English on television from a sociolinguistic point of view, taking into account the effect that variables such as nationality, social class and gender might have on the expletive usage in the examined material. After a general discussion of expletives and their functions, the question of whether there is a relationship between gender and the use of expletives is addressed. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Comparative Study on Syntactic Transfer in L2 and L3 school-aged English learners in Sweden : The acquisition of the English existential expletive subject

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Carles Fuster Sansalvador; [2014]
    Keywords : transfer; cross-linguistic; expletive; existential; there-construction; L1; L2; L3; L2-status; acquisition; foreign-language; SLA; second language; third language; micro-perspective; external supplier language; typology; psychotypology; transfer; tvärspråkligt; L1; L2; L3; tredjespråksinlärning; andraspråksinlärning; psykotypologi;

    Abstract : Various studies have indicated during the past decade that language transfer in L3 may not only stem from L1 but from L2 as well, and that it might sometimes even be stronger from L2, depending on certain factors that facilitate or inhibit transfer. This phenomenon of L2 as the main transfer source in L3 has often been referred to as the ”L2 status factor” (Hammarberg, 2001). READ MORE

  5. 4. Euphemism: Sweet Talking or Deception?

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Omar Abu Hammad; [2007]
    Keywords : Linguistics;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to shed light on euphemism in two different senses: sweet talking and deception. I shall treat euphemism from two different perspectives: the usual use of euphemism, sweet talking, in which it is used to maintain one's face and the orthophemistic sense, deception, where 'torture' is referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques". READ MORE