Lutzky, Ursula, Kehoe, Andrew. 2016. "Your blog is (the) shit". A corpus linguistic approach to the identification of swearing in computer mediated communication. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 21 (2), 165-191.
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Abstract
The study of swearing has increased in the last decade, diversifying to include a wider range of data and methods of analysis. Nevertheless, certain types of data and specifically large corpora of computer mediated communication (CMC) have not been studied extensively. In this paper, we fill a gap in research by studying the use of swearwords in blog data, and illustrate ways of identifying swearing in a large corpus by taking context into account. This approach, based on the examination of shared and unique collocates of known expletives, facilitates the distinction of attestations of swearing from non-swearing in the case of polysemous lexemes, and the analysis of overlaps in usage and meaning of swearwords. This work therefore goes beyond basic sentiment analysis and offers new insights into the use of collocation for refining profanity filters, providing innovative perspectives on issues of growing importance as online interaction becomes more widespread.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics |
Citation Index | SSCI |
Language | English |
Title | "Your blog is (the) shit". A corpus linguistic approach to the identification of swearing in computer mediated communication |
Volume | 21 |
Number | 2 |
Year | 2016 |
Page from | 165 |
Page to | 191 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijcl.21.2.02lut/details |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21.2.02lut |
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- People
- Lutzky, Ursula (Details)
- External
- Kehoe, Andrew (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom)
- Organization
- Institute for English Business Communication IN (Details)
- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 6604 Applied linguistics (Details)
- 6611 Linguistics (Details)
- 6633 Computational linguistics (Details)
- 6643 Synchronic linguistics (Details)