Whendy H.

Baloaloa
ABEL-IV
EL-130

Title: Swear Words in Twitter Posts of AB Language Students

Statement of the problem:

1. What types of swear words are used by English Language students in their twitter posts?
2. In what language are those swearing words/expressed/written?
3. What is the speech function of the use of swear words in twitter posts?

Review of Related Literature Outline

Definition of Swearing

Swearing

Concrete Definition of Swearing (Beers Fagersten,2000)

Swearing (Kidman, 1993;Montagu, 1967)

Articles Related to Swearing (Andersons and Trudgill, 1990)

Swearing as personality and identity (Hartogs & Fantel, 1967, p.18).Thelwall (2008)

Swear words (McEnery, 2006)

Types of Swearing

(Jay & Janschewitz, 2008)

Montagu (2001) denunciation of swearing

(Maynard, 2002)

Jay (2009) classifies swear words in nine categories

Pinker’s book (2007) five functions of swearing

(McEnery, 2006) classification of swear words

Social Media

(Ritter et al., 2011)

(Finkel et al., 2005)

(Petrov and McDonald, 2012)

Twitter

“one out of 13 tweets contains curse words” (Wenbo et al., 2014).

Munro and Manning (2012)

(Anis, 2007)

(Sakaki et al., 2010; Benson et al., 2011)

(Paolillo, 2001)

Previous Research on Twitter

Tweet Language (Coats, 2016b;Coats, 2017)

Twitter Users (Coats, 2016a; Coats, 2016c; Eisenstein & Pavalanathan, 2015; Mocanu et al.,
2013)

English as most common tweet (Mocanu et al., 2013, p. 4)

“Grammatical feature frequencies of English on Twitter in Finland”, written by Coats (2016a)

Previous Research on Swearing

Swear and Taboo words (Dewaele, 2004)

Beer Fägersten (2007) studied swear words in University

Thelwall’s (2008) study on swearing in MySpace

Jeno O. Gabuat
ABEL-IV
EL-130

Title: Swear Words in Facebook Posts of AB Language Students

Statement of the problem:
1. What types of swear words are used by English Language students in their facebook
posts?
2. In what language are those swearing words expressed/written?
3. What is the speech function of the use of swear words in Facebook posts?

Review of Related Literature Outline

Definition of Swearing
Swearing
(Ljung, 2010) Cases of swearing
(Pinker, 2010) Definition of swearing
(Robbins et al., 2011) swearing represents aggression
(Stephens, Atkins, and Kingston, 2009)

Classification of Swearing
(McEnery, 2006)
(Selnow, 1985)
Jay (2009)
(Stephens, Spierer, and Katehis, 2017)
(Jay and Jay, 2013)

Social Media/Online World

(Garcia and Sikström, 2014)
(e.g., Towner and Munoz, 2011)
(Warranting Theory: Walther and Parks, 2002)
(e.g. Marwick, 2013)
Facebook
(Ellison, Steinfeld, and Lampe, 2007; Stefanone, Lackaff, and Rosen, 2011)
(Back et al., 2010; Gosling, Gaddis, and Vazire, 2007)
(e.g., Scott et al., 2014).
(Tong et al., 2018; Utz, 2010)

Language Online
(Pennebaker and King, 1999; Pennebaker, Mehl, and Niederhoffer, 2003)
(Drouin, 2011; Fullwood, et al., 2015; Thelwall, 2008).
(Ganster, Eimlner, and Kramer, 2012; Skovholt, Gronning, and Kankaanranta, 2014)
(Fullwood et al., 2015).