Swearing in class: Institutional morality in dispute

Publication date: December 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 48Author(s): Catherine Doherty, Adon Berwick, Rowena McGregorAbstractThis paper explores how swearing in classrooms is variably construed and managed as a moral problem, and how classroom settings can demand higher standards than broader society. We review sociolinguistic understandings of Anglophone settings regarding what constitutes 'bad' language, the pragmatics of swearing across society, and trends over time, to trace a growing tolerance in public settings and media, particularly in Australia. We then review literature regarding swearing in schools. Using Douglas' (1966) theory of purity, hygiene, taboos and moral boundaries, we conceptualise schools as strongly demarcated 'purified' sites that underta...

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