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Academic Programme

Monday 19 June (Dorothy Hodgkin Building Room 0.08)

8.30 to 9          Pre arrival coffee

9 to 9.10          Welcome

9.10 to 10.10   FREE PAPERS 1: Swearing and gender (3 papers)

10.10 to 10.30 Break + refreshments

10.30 to 12.30 BPS SEMINAR: Swearfest

12.30 to 1.45   Lunch at the KPA

1.45 to 2.45     FREE PAPERS 2: Swearing & culture (4 papers)

3.05 to 3.25     Break + refreshments

3.25 to 4.25     FREE PAPERS 3: Speakers from the US and Canada

4.25 to 4.35     Comfort break

4.35 to 5.45     KEYNOTE

7.30pm            Dinner (not covered by conference sponsors)

           

Tuesday 20 June (Dorothy Hodgkin Building Room 0.08)

8.30 to 9          Pre arrival coffee

9 to 10.00        FREE PAPERS 4: Experimental Psychological approaches to understanding swearing (3 papers)

10.00 to 10.20 Break + refreshments

10.20 to 11.40 FREE PAPERS 5: Understanding swearing in specific contexts #1 (4 papers)

11.40-11.50     Comfort break

11.50 to 12.50 FREE PAPERS 6: Understanding swearing in specific contexts #2 (3 papers)

12.50 to 1.30   Lunch in situ

1.30 to 2.30     WORKSHOP: Open Science, led by Dr Thomas Evans

2.30 to 2.40     End of conference speech

2.40 to 3          Break + refreshments

3 to 4               Meeting of SWISCA/ CRAP committees

 

 

Keynote Speaker

Tony McEnery, renowned swearing researcher and Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University.

 

 

Free Paper Sessions (20 mins per speaker/ 15 minute talk & 5 minute Q & A)

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1 Swearing and gender

  • Penni Pietilä; A case study on a literacy project leaning in anti-school masculinities: ‘vittu’ (fuck) as a key word for attention and interest. V

  • Yuze Sha, Robin Vallery; Gender representations in swearing: bitch and bastard in Spoken BNC2014. P

  • Matthew Hunt; (Not) swearing and professional wrestling. P

 

2 Swearing & culture

  • Marianne Rathje; Generational attitudes to swear words in Denmark – 10 years later. P

  • Marco Marelli, Fritz Gunther, Simone Sulpizio; A large psycholinguistic database for taboo words in 14 languages. V

  • Alejandro Palomares Ortiz; A cognitive-pragmatic approach to the interpretation of slurs. P

  • Shiri Lev Ari, Ryan McKay; The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity? P

 

3 Speakers from the US and Canada

  • Nooshin Shakiba, Karyn Stapleton; Persian Immigrants’ Language Choice for Swearing: The Effects of Socio-biographical Variables and Personality Traits. V

  • Annette Glotfelty, Sarah Aliko, Bangjie Wang, Jeremy I. Skipper, Steven L. Small; Benefits of Naturalistic Paradigms for Brain Imaging of Expletive Perception. V

  • Samantha Kroon, Avalene Tan, Victor Nguyen, Shreyas Chandra, Ayesha Usman, Giana Abraham, Annette Glotfelty, Steven L. Small; Getting Aroused: A Study of the Impacts of Profanity and Loudness on Emotional Arousal Through Film. V

 

4 Experimental Psychological approaches to understanding swearing

  • Venja Beck, Joseph Brooks, Richard Stephens; Neural measures of error-monitoring processes as an indicator for state disinhibition in swearword repetition. P

  • Richard Stephens, Kristy Beers Fägersten, Karyn Stapleton, Catherine Loveday; From where do swear words get their power? A survey of recall of swear words across the life span. P

  • Olly Robertson, Alex Lamont, Richard Stephens; “When I swear I can let everything out” – swearing and our emotions. P

 

5 Understanding swearing in specific contexts #1

  • Kristy Beers Fägersten, Karyn Stapleton; Everyone swears on Only Murders in the Building. P

  • Nick Washmuth; Swearing and Physiotherapy: Finding the Right Patient, at the Right Time, for the Right Reason. P

  • Minna Hjort; Guns N’ bombs aren’t fucking toys” – Excessive language in the linguistic landscape. P

  • Michael Gauthier, Adrien Guille, Loïck Chardon; “#fuck Our asses are melting”: a glimpse into the meld of swear words and climate change on Twitter. V

 

6 Understanding swearing in specific contexts #2

  • Elizabeth Peterson; Language contact and then some: Swearing in Finland Swedish. P

  • Robbie Love: British English swearing in corpora of casual conversation

  • Maria Mako; Elementary school students ́use of crude language: from a discursive psychological perspective. P

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P = In-Person presentation

V = Virtual (online) presentation

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