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Karyn Stapleton

Dr Karyn Stapleton is a Senior Lecturer in Communication at Ulster University, Northern Ireland. As well as taking a particular research focus on swearing, Karyn has broader research interests in interpersonal communication, discourse analysis, social psychology, and identity construction and management. She has published in key international journals, including Discourse & Society, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Identities, Organization, Language in Society. She was a contributor to the Handbook of Pragmatics, writing the chapter on Swearing (de Gruyter, 2010). With Kristy Beers Fägersten, she has co-edited Advances in Swearing Research (Benjamins 2017). Karyn is joint Vice-Chair of the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction (ICSI) section of the European Communication Research and Education Association. She also holds professional membership of the British Psychological Society, the International Pragmatics Association, the International Communication Association, and the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. She was a member of the Organising Committee for the 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference (Belfast, 2017); and for the 2nd and 6th ICSI conferences (2011, Belfast, Northern Ireland; 2019, Tilburg, Netherlands). In 2017, she was the Keynote Speaker at The 5th Swearing in Scandinavia Symposium, Helsinki, Finland. She has been an External Examiner at ITT, Dublin, Manchester Metropolitan University, Macquarie University, Australia, and Birkbeck College, University of London.

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

Perspectives on Profanity
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Kristy Beers Fägersten

Kristy Beers Fägersten is Professor of English Linguistics at Södertörn University, Sweden. Kristy has been researching swearing since graduate school, having written her dissertation on swearing in English from a sociolinguistic perspective. She has since included discourse analysis and conversation analysis methodology and theory in her research, focusing on the pragmatic functions of swearing and the role of swearing in talk-in-interaction. Recurring themes in Kristy’s research are the relationship between swearing and humor and the use of English swear words in Sweden.

Kristy is the author of Who’s swearing now? The social aspects and pragmatic functions of conversational swearing (2012) and co-editor (with Karyn Stapleton) of Advances in swearing research. New languages and new contexts (2017). Additional publications include “English-language swearwords as humor in Swedish comic strips” (2017), “The role of swearing in creating an online persona: The case of YouTuber PewDiePie” (2017), “FUCK CANCER, Fucking Åmål, Aldrig fucka upp: The standardization of fuck in Swedish media” (2017), and “Swearwords for sale: The commodification of swearing” (2021). Kristy is a member of the swearing research network, “Swearing in Scandinavia” (SwiSca) and was the organizer of “Perfunctory, pragmatic, and pain-relieving: The 6th Swearing in Scandinavia Symposium” (2019).

Kristy doesn’t swear much at all, but she talks about swearing all the more. Here are some examples - in Swedish, but the swear words are in English:

  • Finland-Swedish Yle’s radio program Efter Nio (featuring a lively analysis of a prolific swearer’s weekly swearing tally)
  • Språktidningen’s popular scientific podcast (featuring a discussion of English swear words in Swedish)
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Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Perspectives on Profanity
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Matt Jaquiery

Matt is one of the founding members of the Consortium for Research About Profanity, along with Olly Robertson. He is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, and studies the psychology of decision-making and advice taking with Nick Yeung.

Matt has an interest in open scholarship practices, organisational efficiency, and science that tells us true things about the world and ourselves. He is responsible for producing this website and helping to organise core Consortium activities.

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

Perspectives on Profanity
Profanity Review    
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Olly Robertson

Olly is one of two founding members of the Consortium for Research About Profanity, along with Matt Jaquiery. Olly is a PhD candidate at Keele University and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. She studies the psychology of emotion.

Besides profanity and emotion research, Olly has a strong interest in open science and in encouraging contributions to psychology from historically underrepresented groups.

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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).

Perspectives on Profanity
Profanity Review    
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Thomas Rhys Evans

Dr Thomas Rhys Evans is an Associate Professor in Occupational Psychology at Coventry University. Tom approaches profanity from the perspective of emotion regulation, and enjoys adopting a meta-science perspective to explore possibilities for research quality improvement.

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

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

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

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

Perspectives on Profanity      
Profanity Review