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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    The six factors of an effective verbal communication. Each corresponds to a communication function (not displayed in this picture). [1] Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor.

  4. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    For example, a man asked him to remove motherfucker because, as a derivative of fuck, it constituted a duplication: "He says motherfucker is a duplication of the word fuck, technically, because fuck is the root form, motherfucker being derivative; therefore, it constitutes duplication.

  5. Communication theory - Wikipedia

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    Communication theories vary substantially in their epistemology, and articulating this philosophical commitment is part of the theorizing process. [1] Although the various epistemic positions used in communication theories can vary, one categorization scheme distinguishes among interpretive empirical, metric empirical or post-positivist, rhetorical, and critical epistemologies. [13]

  6. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    Hockett distinguished language from communication. While almost all animals communicate in some way, a communication system is only considered language if it possesses all of the above characteristics. Some animal communication systems are impressively sophisticated in the sense that they possess a significant number of the design features as ...

  7. Defamation - Wikipedia

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    A notable example of such lawsuits being used to suppress political criticism of a government is the use of defamation claims by politicians in Singapore's ruling People's Action Party to harass and suppress opposition leaders such as J. B. Jeyaretnam.

  8. Category:English profanity - Wikipedia

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  9. Flaming (Internet) - Wikipedia

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    Social researchers have investigated flaming, coming up with several different theories about the phenomenon. [5] These include deindividuation and reduced awareness of other people's feelings (online disinhibition effect), [6] [7] [8] conformance to perceived norms, [9] [10] miscommunication caused by the lack of social cues available in face-to-face communication, [11] [12] [13] and anti ...