What is swearing? The problem of foul language

Conventional conversational formulations may be unacceptable, but people do not think about it often. As a result, adults can only wonder where children learn "bad words" and why they are so attractive. What is foul language, why is it spreading so quickly and how to deal with it?

Definition of the term according to the dictionaries

Academic definition can be formulated as follows: profanity is a speech in which abusive obscene words are present. At the same time, not only obscene vocabulary is called bad , but also crude language, designed to offend and offend the interlocutor.

Crafty attempts to separate the mate from "permissible" curses are in fact designed to blur the line between an acceptable and unacceptable lexicon. What is foul language really? In a broad sense, this can be a deliberately offensive speech, even if there is not a single swear word in it. More often, rough expressions are arbitrarily divided by the degree of admissibility, and on the basis of this, a subjective decision is taken: to blame the speaker or to consider that he keeps in the shaky limits of decency.

What is profanity from the point of view of a teenager?

Many regretfully admit that it is children from a certain age who willingly humiliate their speech. Why is this happening? The rebellious teenager gets into the network of the simplest principle of "rebellion for the sake of rebellion." What should be an instrument for achieving a certain goal is taken for the goal itself, the accents are shifted. If a teenager is asked why he so readily curses, most likely, the answer is an inarticulate explanation in the style of "everyone ran - and I ran."

If the topic "Foul language is bad" is raised in front of adolescents, then he once again gets confirmation that adults do not understand anything. The desire to teach good at all costs leads adults to the opposite result. We have to admit that the abusive vocabulary is present in everyday life, and in such quantities that a person circumventing without a scolding looks strange and causes suspicion.

Teacher in the role of educator

At school, the class teacher must take up the educational function. Of course, this does not mean that other teachers are left out - this is a team work. What can the teacher do to overcome the profanity among the students? A class hour devoted to this problem can be conducted on the basis of methodological literature. However, work on a given topic is not limited to one lecture on "Children, it's not good to swear!". Only systematic work will help, and personal example here is of great importance.

Conversational norms

Common standards of communication suggest that abusive language is inappropriate. At the same time, not only the classic mate falls into the category of abuse, but vulgar names of genital organs, secretions of the human body, names of some animals, birds, trees, objects. If you analyze the abusive lexicon, you can only be amazed at its diversity. For example, there is nothing defective or embarrassing in a bird chicken, but if you call a chicken a woman, while specifying that the bird is wet, it is unlikely she will take it as a compliment.

A peculiar foul language virus spreads very quickly. Curses are picked up even by adults, children hear from ten to hundreds of swear words every day. No lectures on the defectiveness of this style of communication do not work, because in this case the theory is not confirmed by practice. Herd instinct reliably keeps those who try to stop the stream of abuse. Nevertheless, it is possible to give sufficiently strong arguments against profanity.

The power of words

During the research, scientists have confirmed that sounds are of an energetic nature that affects others. It is confirmed that bell ringing can reduce the number of pathogens, and the classical music included in the glass improves its structure.

Inconspicuous combinations, however, distort this structure. If for some time to scold the water, then when it freezes, it gives off flawed compositions. Snowflakes are maimed, they lack symmetrical symmetry. What is foul language in terms of energy? This is a destructive message into space, designed to carry evil literally at the molecular level.

Use obscene vocabulary in everyday life

The abundance of scolding around us sometimes goes off scale. If earlier in art works obscene vocabulary was put into the mouth of negative characters in order to emphasize their bad qualities, now it suddenly turns out to be a kind of symbol of "coolness". The very problem of profanity is the substitution of concepts. The bad is declared good or even acceptable, acceptable. Parents do not see anything special in that they insult their children, and after that they demand a cultural speech from them, and yet these are mutually exclusive phenomena.

How to instill in children a culture of speech?

Lectures, educational conversations and frank intimidation, when the child is punished for the curse spoken off, and often with abuse from the punishing adult, work only partly. Rather, they do not work as educators hope. Children simply do not explain what the swearing is really about. Presentation of the abuse as an integral part of the vocabulary of "cool people" overwhelms the surrounding reality.

It's worth remembering a simple truth: children learn by watching adults. If others do not swear, then the children will not, simply because they will not see an example that you want to follow. Of course, the child can pick up the habit of cussing from the outside, but here parents and educators should be wise. Why do teenagers get rude? "To show them all." What exactly to show and why - this question is unlikely to answer even one teenager. They want to embarrass the interlocutor, to bring him out of balance. If this does not work, then the unsuitable instrument will soon be forgotten, so do not raise the cry because the child cursed. Calm surprise can work much more effectively.

What can I say in defense of abuse?

It can not be said that profanity is unequivocally condemned by all sensible people. There is an opinion, according to which, cursing helps to reduce emotional tension a little, to lower steam. This point of view was brilliantly formulated by Herbert Wells in the story "The Code of Curses." It describes a person who collects and systematizes all kinds of abuse. Enthusiast of his case, Professor Gnilstok, with a risk to his own health and life, even hired a servant in Calcutta and expelled him without paying his salary. And all this solely for the sake of, mleja with happiness, to write down the swearing, which the furious Bengali watered his vile employer for several hours in a row.

Wells called cursing "emotional emetic," that is, a remedy that helps to expel poison and survive. Emotional expressive abuse is just a shaking of the air. A person who swore from the heart, is less likely to hit the interlocutor, and one who is forced to endure and hold back, may well kill. Of course, the genius writer laughed at the situation with profanity in his story, but thinking readers will surely find food for thought in it.