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Using Language to Test Developmental Differences in Attitudes toward Solitude in Adolescents and Emerging Adults

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Tiffany Cheng; Anna Stone; Robert J. Coplan – Social Development, 2025

The goal of this study was to assess developmental differences in adolescents' and emerging adults' attitudes toward solitude using three different methodologies. Participants were N = 1224 adolescents (n = 367, ages 15-18 years, M[subscript age] = 16.13, SD = 0.54; 65.7% female) and emerging adults (n = 857, aged 18-29 years, M[subscript age] =…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Developmental Stages, Age Differences

"Cunt": On the Perception and Handling of Verbal Dynamite by L1 and Lx Users of English

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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018

"Cunt" is currently one of the most offensive words in the English language and is usually censored in the English press and media. The present study looks firstly at differences between 1159 first (L1) and 1165 foreign (LX) users of English in their perceived understanding of the word, its perceived offensiveness and their self-reported…

Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), English, Native Language

Self-Reported Frequency of Swearing in English: Do Situational, Psychological and Sociobiographical Variables Have Similar Effects on First and Foreign Language Users?

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Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017

An analysis of data collected from 2347 users of English on their self-reported swearing behaviour in English revealed significant higher values for the 1159 native English (L1) users than for the 1165 English foreign language (LX) users. Parallel analyses on the data of the L1 and LX users revealed that the interlocutor effect was slightly…

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage