The profanity gap in contemporary Spanish society

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2022-09-27 DOI:10.1075/ld.00132.gut

Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio

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Abstract

This paper examines sex differences in the use of expletives in spontaneous informal conversations among the contestants in the Spanish version of Big Brother. The results of the analysis of a corpus of 33,050 words empirically support some of the previous findings of self-reported use obtained from questionnaires and interviews. However, some unexpected findings were also noted – two of the women employ profanity more commonly than two out of the five male participants and one female swears particularly often in mixed-sex conversations. According to the results of the study, the ‘profanity gap’ in Spanish society may be narrowing, but it has not completely disappeared.

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当代西班牙社会的亵渎鸿沟

本文研究了西班牙版《老大哥》参赛者在自发的非正式对话中使用脏话的性别差异。对33050个单词语料库的分析结果在经验上支持了之前从问卷和访谈中获得的一些自我报告使用的发现。然而，也注意到了一些意想不到的发现——其中两名女性比五分之二的男性参与者更经常使用脏话，一名女性在混合性别对话中特别经常咒骂。根据研究结果，西班牙社会中的“脏话差距”可能正在缩小，但并没有完全消失。

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