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“ ‘ Christ fucking tinker’s dam merde ! ’ Language preferences for swear among maximally skilful multilinguals,”published in the journal Sociolinguistic Studies . In lieu of an award speech , here ’s the abstract :
The present study investigates oral communication preferences for curse among two groups of multilinguals . The first chemical group consist of 386 grownup multilinguals who filled out the Bilingualism and Emotion web based questionnaire ( BEQ , Dewaele and Pavlenko , 2001–2003 ) and had declared that they were maximally proficient in their L1 and L2 and used both voice communication constantly . The second group consisted of 20 multilinguals with a like sociobiographical visibility who were interview about their linguistic communication choice for the communication of emotion . A statistical analysis of the quantitative data let out that despite standardised level of self - perceive proficiency and relative frequency of use in the L1 and L2 , the L1 was used importantly more for swearing and L1 swearing were comprehend to have a stronger emotional resonance . An analysis of the quantitative data from the BEQ and the interview data reassert the findings of the quantitative analysis while add rich contingent about the difficulties in deciding which language to select for swearing .
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