What the swearword?!

  • Van Huyssteen 2025e

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2025. “Impolite Afrikaans morphological constructions.” 5th International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop, University of Michigan [online], 05–06 September.

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  • Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2023

    Eiselen, Roald, and Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2023. A comparison of statistical tests for Likert-type data: The case of swearwords. Journal of Open Humanties Data 9:1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.132.

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  • Van Huyssteen et al 2023b

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Rabé, Monique, and Puttkammer, Martin J. 2023. Ouderdoms- en inhoudsadvies vir Afrikaanse boeke vir kinders: resultate van ’n eerste kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe ondersoek [Age and content advisories for Afrikaans children’s books: Results of a first qualitative and quantitative investigation]. LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe) 20:185–212. https://doi.org/10.56273/1995-5928/2023/j20n1b7. Dataset Dataset: Age and content advisories for Afrikaans…

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  • Van Huyssteen et al 2023c

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Eiselen, Roald, and Du Toit, Jaco. 2023. A dataset of self-reported attitudes to Afrikaans swearwords. Journal of Open Humanties Data 9:1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.127. Dataset Afrikaans swearword scores [zip]

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  • Van Huyssteen & Tiberius 2023

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Tiberius, Carole. 2023. Towards a lexical database of Dutch taboo language. Paper presented at eLex 2023, Brno, Czech Republic. https://elex.link/elex2023/ Design document: Version 2.0.0 available for commenting Download XLSX

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  • Van Huyssteen et al 2023a

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Breed, Adri, Butler, Anneke, Botha, Lande, Partridge, Maristi, and Pilon, Suléne. 2023. ʼn Metodologie vir die beskrywing van konstruksionaliseringsnetwerke: Konstruksies met [in] as gevallestudie [A methodology for the description of constructionalisation networks: Constructions with [in] as a case study]. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics.

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  • Van Huyssteen, Puttkammer & Rabé 2022

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Puttkammer, Martin J., and Rabé, Monique. 2022. Do Afrikaans digital parents want content and age advisories for books? In Digital Humanities in precarious times. Vanderbijlpark, South Africa: North-West University.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2022d

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Drie duisend f-bomme en granate: Temas in vergelykende vloekkunde [Three thousand f-bombs and grenades: Themes in comparative maledictology]. In Keynote speaker: Conference of the Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek [South African Society for Dutch Studies]. Nijmegen: Radboud University.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2022c

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Suid-Afrikaanse Taalkunde: Vloek in Afrikaans [South African Linguistics: Swearing in Afrikaans]. In Guest lectureship. Leiden: Leiden University.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2022b

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Kan godslastering ooit humoristies wees? [Can blasphemy ever be humourous?]. In Vloekcoza research blog. https://vloek.co.za/blogs/navorsing/kan-godslastering-humoristies-wees.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2022a

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Wat ons van ‘fok’ weet (en nie weet nie) [What we (don’t) know about fok]. LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe) 19:428-452.

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  • Van Huyssteen & Eiselen 2021a

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B, and Roald Eiselen. 2021. “Oor feekse en helleveë [On shrews and harridans].” Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 61 (4-1):1129-1155. doi: doi.10.17159/2224-7912/2021/v61n4-1a9.

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  • Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2021

    Eiselen, Roald, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2021. “Using ordinal logistic regression to analyse self-reported usage of, and attitudes towards swearwords.” International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa 2021, Virtual, 29 November to 3 December.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2021a

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2021. “Swearing in South Africa: Multidisciplinary research on language taboos.” International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa 2021, South Africa, 29 November to 3 December.

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  • Van Huyssteen & Eiselen 2021b

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. & Eiselen, Roald. 2021. How Afrikaans women became fierce-tempered. Zürich Workshop on Afrikaans Linguistics. Zürich, Switzerland. 4-5 October.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2021b

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2021b. When as word is befok. Afrikaans Grammar Workshop III. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 29 September – 1 October.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2019

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2019. “Vloek Afrikaanssprekendes regtig? Betroubaarheid van ’n eerste grootskaalse meningspeiling se resultate.” Vloek.co.za.

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  • What the swearword?!

    This multidisciplinary research project investigates swearing from the digital humanities, and with inputs from and implications to various cognitive neurosciences.

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  • Van Huyssteen 2019

    Van Huyssteen, Gerhardus B. 2019. Website: vloek.co.za. Available: https://vloek.co.za. Pretoria: Viridevert NPC.

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