Relating Tabooness to Humor and Arousal Ratings in American English: What the F*** Is so Funny?

IF 1.1 2区 文学 Q3 AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Language and Speech Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-15 DOI:10.1177/00238309241228863
Meredith A Shafto, Lise Abrams, Lori E James, Pengbo Hu, Genevieve Gray
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Emotion can have a profound effect on language processing, and taboo words have been increasingly used in research as highly emotional, negatively valenced stimuli. However, because taboo words as a lexical category are socially constructed and semantically idiosyncratic, they may also have complex emotional characteristics. This complexity may not be fully considered by researchers using taboo words as research stimuli. This study gathered tabooness, humor, and arousal ratings to provide a resource for researchers to better understand the sources and characteristics of the strong emotions generated by taboo words. A total of 411 participants aged 18-83 were recruited via online platforms, and all participants rated the same 264 words on tabooness, humor, and arousal. Analyses indicated that tabooness and humor ratings were positively related to each other, and both were predicted by arousal ratings. The set of ratings included here provides a tool for researchers using taboo stimuli, and our findings highlight methodological considerations while broadening our understanding of the cognitive and linguistic nature of highly emotional language.

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将美国英语中的 "禁忌"(Tabooness)与 "幽默"(Humor)和 "兴奋度"(Arousal Ratings)联系起来:有什么好笑的?
情绪会对语言加工产生深远的影响,而禁忌词作为高情绪、负情感的刺激物已越来越多地被用于研究中。然而,由于禁忌词作为一个词类是由社会构建的,在语义上具有特异性,因此它们也可能具有复杂的情感特征。使用禁忌词语作为研究刺激的研究人员可能没有充分考虑到这种复杂性。本研究收集了禁忌、幽默和唤醒评分,为研究人员更好地了解禁忌词语所产生的强烈情绪的来源和特征提供了资料。本研究通过网络平台共招募了 411 名年龄在 18-83 岁之间的参与者,所有参与者都对 264 个相同的词语进行了禁忌性、幽默性和唤醒性评分。分析表明,禁忌和幽默的评分相互之间呈正相关,而两者都会受到唤醒评分的预测。我们的研究结果强调了研究方法上的注意事项,同时拓宽了我们对高情感语言的认知和语言性质的理解。
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Language and Speech
Language and Speech AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Language and Speech is a peer-reviewed journal which provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of the production, perception, processing, learning, use, and disorders of speech and language. The journal accepts reports of original research in all these areas.
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