What is swearing? The problem of foul language

Conventional spoken language can beunacceptable, just people rarely think about it. As a result, adults can only wonder where children learn "bad words" and why they are so attractive. What is profanity, why does it spread so quickly and how to deal with it?

Definition of the term according to the dictionaries

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

Crafty attempts to separate the mat from the "permissible" onescurses are actually designed to blur the line between 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 reprove the speaker or to consider that he is keeping in the shaky limits of decency.

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

Many regretfully admit that it is children withof a certain age willingly humiliate their speech. Why is this happening? The rebellious teenager falls 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 will be an inarticulate explanation in the style of "everyone ran - and I ran."

If teenagers raise a topic"Foul language is bad", 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 without a swearing looks strange and causes suspicion.

Teacher in the role of educator

At school, educational functions should bea class teacher. 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 the topic "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 thatabusive language is inappropriate. At the same time, not only the classic mate falls in the category of abuse, but vulgar names of genital organs, secretions of the human body, the 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 spreadsvery fast. 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 cite sufficiently strong arguments against foul language.

The power of words

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

Inconspicuous combinations, however, distort thisstructure. 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 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 require 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 frankintimidation, when the child is dismissed for abuse, punished, and often with abuse from the punishing adult, work only in part. Rather, they do not work the way the caregivers hope. Children simply do not explain what the swearing is really about. Presentation of the scolding as an integral part of the lexicon of "cool people" overwhelms the surrounding reality.

It is 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 swearing 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 foul language is unequivocalcondemned 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 drove him out without paying salaries. 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", thenis a remedy that helps to expel the poison and survive. Emotional expressive swearing 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 restrain, may well kill. Of course, the genius writer laughed at the situation with foul language in his story, but thinking readers will surely find food for thought in it.