Timothy Jay
List of John Benjamins publications in which Timothy Jay is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2213-1272 | E‑ISSN 2213‑1280
Titles
Why We Curse: A neuro-psycho-social theory of speech
Timothy Jay
Psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we curse and why we choose the words we do when we curse. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and… read more[Not in series, 91] 2000. xv, 328 pp.
Cursing in America: A psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts, in the movies, in the schoolyards and on the streets
Timothy Jay
This is the first serious and extensive examination of American cursing from a psycholinguistic-contextual point of view. Several field studies and numerous laboratory-based experiments focus on the relationship between cursing and language acquisitions, anger expresssion, gender stereotypes,… read more[Not in series, 57] 1992. viii, 272 pp.
Article
2018 Swearing, moral order, and online communication Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:1, pp. 107–126 | Article
This paper addresses problems with swearing on the internet. The opening section of the paper defines swearing (uttering offensive emotional speech) as a ubiquitous form of impolite human behavior. Swearing can occur wherever humans communicate with each other and that it appears in… read more