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]
Van Huyssteen et al 2023c
2023, Afrikaans, attitude, dataset, empirical linguistics, questionnaire, swearing, swearword, taboo, taboo language
Abstract
Until recently, no research has ever been done on user attitudes to Afrikaans taboo language. To address this shortcoming, a multidisciplinary research project was initiated to investigate, among others, user attitudes to swearwords. Online single-word surveys (SWSs) for individual swearwords have been posted periodically on the project website (https://vloek.co.za). Volunteer respondents are recruited through respondent-driven opportunistic sampling and snow-ball sampling via social media. Respondents firstly give their informed consent, and then once-off provide some sociodemographic information. Thereafter, each swearword is judged on at least seven attitudinal dimensions. All data are stored in a relational database, and then extracted to create a single UTF-8 encoded CSV file. The dataset holds great potential for perusal in numerous language-specific (i.e., Afrikaans) sociopragmatic and/or sociolinguistic investigations and applications, as well as for comparative linguistic research and general statistical modelling.
Written in:
English
Dealing with:
Afrikaans
Keywords
Afrikaans, attitude, dataset, empirical linguistics, offensive language, offensiveness, questionnaire, rating, swearing, swearword, taboo, taboo language, tabooness
Afrikaans keywords
aanstootgewende taal, aanstootlikheid, Afrikaans, datastel, empiriese taalkunde, houding, taboe, taboetaal, verbodenheid, valueer, vloek, vloekwoord, vraelys