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A Preliminary Investigation of Obscene Language

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Pages 263-275 | Received 08 Jan 1973, Published online: 02 Jul 2010

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Eric Rassin & Peter Muris. (2005) Why do women swear? An exploration of reasons for and perceived efficacy of swearing in Dutch female students. Personality and Individual Differences 38:7, pages 1669-1674.
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Lee Sigelman & William Jacoby. (1996) The not-so-simple art of imitation: Pastiche, literary style, and Raymond Chandler. Computers and the Humanities 30:1, pages 11-28.
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Lois Sazer & Howard Kassinove. (2016) Effects of Counselor's Profanity and Subject's Religiosity on Content Acquisition of a Counseling Lecture and Behavioral Compliance. Psychological Reports 69:3_suppl, pages 1059-1070.
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Janet Holmes. (2008) Language and gender. Language Teaching 24:4, pages 207-220.
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Marlene G. Fine & Fern L. Johnson. (2016) Female and Male Motives for Using Obscenity. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 3:1, pages 59-74.
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