Perspectives on Profanity

Profanity has been investigated in numerous ways across numerous disciplines. As a part of the overarching project, we want to draw up a rough taxonomy of approaches.

Several members of the Consortium, from a variety of different disciplines, will provide short accounts of how their discipline defines and investigates profanity, the major questions surrounding its use, and any key theories or discoveries made thus far. These accounts will then be edited together.

Person

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Matt Jaquiery  
Olly Robertson  
Thomas Rhys Evans        
Karyn Stapleton        
Kristy Beers Fägersten        

Profanity Review

There are a wide variety of academic approaches to profanity throughout history, both ancient and modern. We are attempting to provide a systematic review of this literature, to properly characterise the variety of theories, perspectives, and evidence which have been thus far produced.

Person

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.

Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – editing – Revision of the draft – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Matt Jaquiery      
Olly Robertson      
Thomas Rhys Evans