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Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 8.7k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the use of swearing, taboo language, and euphemisms in communication, examining their pragmatics, sociolinguistic implications, gender differences, and cultural norms. It delves into the perception and impact of swearing on individuals, as well as the psycholinguistic aspects of language use.

  • Swearing
  • Taboo Language
  • Pragmatics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Euphemism
  • Perception
  • Gender Differences
  • Cultural Norms
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Language Use
Research works
8.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
863
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

Which countries lead Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (663 and 219 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 663 works
  2. 2 United States 219 works
  3. 3 China 181 works
  4. 4 Philippines 135 works
  5. 5 Russia 107 works
  6. 6 India 90 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 85 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 82 works
  9. 9 Germany 73 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 64 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 39.0%United States: 12.9%China: 10.6%Philippines: 7.9%6 others listed: 29.5%39%largest
Indonesia663 · 39.0%United States219 · 12.9%China181 · 10.6%Philippines135 · 7.9%6 others listed501 · 29.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism research?

By volume in 2022-now, Udayana University publishes the most Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism research, followed by Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas Sumatera Utara.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Udayana UniversityIndonesia 31 works
  2. 2 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 30 works
  3. 3 Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 23 works
  4. 4 Universitas Mahasaraswati DenpasarIndonesia 22 works
  5. 5 Cebu Technological UniversityPhilippines 16 works
  6. 6 University of JordanJordan 15 works
  7. 7 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 15 works
  8. 8 Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan 15 works
  9. 9 State University of MedanIndonesia 14 works
  10. 10 State University of PadangIndonesia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism include Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism?

The most cited paper in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism is "Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar" (Stephen A. Wadley, Charles N. Li, Sandra Annear Thompson, 1987), with 2,921 citations. Next come "Some principles of linguistic methodology" (1,230) and "Linguistic form and relevance" (907).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar Stephen A. Wadley, Charles N. Li, Sandra Annear Thompson · Journal of the American Oriental Society Jul 1987 2,921
2 Some principles of linguistic methodology William Labov · Language in Society Apr 1972 1,230
3 Linguistic form and relevance Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber · Lingua Jun 1993 907
4 SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Elisabetta Fersini et al. Conference paperOpen access 2019 873
5 Impoliteness revisited: with special reference to dynamic and prosodic aspects Jonathan Culpeper, Derek Bousfield, Anne Wichmann · Journal of Pragmatics 25 Mar 2003 763
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Where is Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism research done?

The largest centres of Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism research in 2022-now are Denpasar (Indonesia), Medan (Indonesia), Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Denpasar and Amman.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 DenpasarIndonesia 65 works
  2. 2 MedanIndonesia 63 works
  3. 3 YogyakartaIndonesia 54 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 48 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 41 works
  6. 6 JakartaIndonesia 37 works
  7. 7 TashkentUzbekistan 33 works
  8. 8 MalangIndonesia 30 works
  9. 9 SurakartaIndonesia 29 works
  10. 10 SurabayaIndonesia 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DenpasarID · 64.9 works16×
  2. AmmanJO · 27.0 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Jordan, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Udayana University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 9.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of JordanUniversitas Gadjah M…Udayana UniversityUniversitas Mahasara…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of JordanJordan 84.246.3%22.8×15 +86.4%
2Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 54.83.2%12.5×30 +85.6%
3Udayana UniversityIndonesia 51.62.4%16.8×31 +32.9%
4Universitas Mahasaraswati DenpasarIndonesia 42.70.3%61.5×22 +396.8%
5Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 42.20.6%13.9×23 +14.5%
6Cebu Technological UniversityPhilippines 37.66.4%145.3×16 -
7Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan 37.54.9%121.1×15 +150.0%
8Muhammadiyah University of SurakartaIndonesia 30.37.8%6.9×10 +170.6%
9Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 29.614.5%6.6×15 -40.6%
10Warmadewa UniversityIndonesia 29.16.3%24.4×10 +85.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism, country by country

Is Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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