Human beings have an impressive capacity for communication, not only are we able to share common meanings with others, but we also have a vocabulary and grammar that allow us to be precise when it comes to transmitting exactly what we want to share. surprise and anger, we also have linguistic taboos: our well-known bad words.
In addition, we can use imitations or images to complete the language. The past, the present and the future can even come together in the same discourse.
- What about that part of the language that’s a little darker.
- Those words that sometimes sound bad but we talk a lot in popular language every day.
- Are there theories that its use produces some kind of emotional discharge?and that also this download is much greater and more powerful if we pronounce these words in our native language.
- Who has never cursed aloud by patting themselves with their finger in the corner of the furniture to ease the pain?.
Taboo seems forbidden. Something that happens but is not supposed to happen, either for reasons of unknownness or prejudice, in many cases out of shame or because it is considered inappropriate, different taboos, such as language taboos, are somewhat inappropriate in a given culture.
Therefore, we cannot speak of taboos without being in a specific cultural context, precisely because it is this context that will attribute to something that inadequacy, to attribute the nature of linguistic taboos to blasphemy.
In the Western world bad words are very poorly seen, you have to take them out of language if we want to be courteous or kind, they are also more associated with a more masculine than feminine language, on the other hand, their bad reputation would too. be associated, at least in part, with a lack of emotional control. Many believe that those who use language taboos are unable to handle their positive or negative emotions in a more sophisticated way.
Moreover, the use of profphema would be worse, especially in big cities, as there is more segregation and understanding than people with a particular vocabulary have less culture and are more abrupt in their personal treatment, this association is precisely in relation to man. of the field, which in the prejudiced vision cultivates the land less and less its intellect. He thinks blasphemy is also known as vulgarism.
This stereotype is easily eliminated when you consider that the use of these linguistic taboos is not associated with a person’s lexical wealth. In fact, a study by Jay and Jay (2015) found evidence that people who are easier to understand Produce a list of words with common characteristics (such as the animal category) were also able to make a longer list of words. Damn words.
The benefits of these words, which sometimes seem so bad, are precisely related to breaking the rules, but what benefits are we talking about? Stephens et al. (2010) conducted a very curious study in this regard, they divided some volunteers into two groups that were supposed to dip their hands in the ice water and try to hold out as long as possible.
Groups differed by a single variable: one of them could use bad words to express themselves while the others could only use neutral words. Can you imagine what happened? Of course, did the group that could speak in bad words last longer?Twice as long!? compared to the control group that only used neutral words.
In addition, it is important to note that this analgesic effect should be used sparingly, there was no jet lag among those who uttered more or less dishonest words, simply saying that they were sufficient.
This result would be consistent with the assumption that the effect is related to breaking the norm, so breaking the rule several times would make the thing in question less prescriptive and therefore would also be less exciting to break it.
Another evidence that would be consistent with the theory of breaking standards is that the expression of blasphemy produces greater arousal, measured as a galvanic response in the skin, if we do so in the mother tongue. This is consistent with the hypothesis because it is assumed that maternal culture is what we have most internalized in ourselves: the place where our most primitive part would be.
So you know, the next time you need an analgesic effect or react to pain, are the taboos released from language?But you don’t have to do too much!