Sorensen2025
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Sorensen2025 |
| Author(s) | Søren Sandager Sørensen, Christina Emborg, Andrea Bruun |
| Title | Hva fanden ('what the devil'): A conversation analytic investigation of swearing and stance in questions and quotation |
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| Tag(s) | Swearing, repair, reported speech, assessing, telling, word search, stance |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Gesprächsforschung |
| Volume | 26 |
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| Pages | 1–24 |
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Abstract
This study investigates the use of the swear word expression hva fanden ('what the devil') in Danish talk-in-interaction by analysing 17 cases using Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. Hva fanden occurs in information-seeking actions, which include repair (i.e., word search and other-initiated repair) and requests for information. Hva fanden conveys the speaker's non-access to certain information, in word search without stance-taking but in other functions displaying a negative stance to e.g. a referent. Hva fanden also occurs in quoted usage, where it performs assessment by framing some conduct as worthy of a response with a negative stance, with variation in their responses (i.e., immediate or none). Through detailed analyses of interaction, the study contributes to knowledge on swearing in interaction.
German abstract: Dieser Beitrag untersucht den Gebrauch des Schimpfwortausdrucks hva fanden ('was zum Teufel') in dänischen Interaktionen durch eine Analyse von 17 Belegen mittels Konversationsanalyse und Interaktionaler Linguistik. Hva fanden kommt in Äußerungen vor, die Informationen erfragen, darunter Reparaturen (Wortsuchen und fremdinitiierte Reparaturen) und direkte Fragen. Hva fanden zeigt eine negative Haltung ("stance") zu den fehlenden Informationen an, bei Wortsuchen allerdings nicht. Hva fanden kommt auch in zitierter Rede in negativen Bewertungen von unangemessenem Verhalten vor, wo es die Bewertung verstärkt. Die Studie soll zum Wissen über den Gebrauch von Schimpfworten beitragen.
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