PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF SWEARING AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Abstract

We cannot denied that every language has Swear word in it. Language as communication and
the accumulation of knowledge is a cognitive system, so it connected to many psychological
aspects and to various areas of human brain. Swearing can be active in the left hemisphere,
which regulates language as well as the right hemisphere because it provokes
emotions.However, connection between brain and swearing is deeply embedded in human
brain, we can see in in post-stroke aphasia patients and in corprolalia condition of people with
Tourette's syndrome who cannot control swearing due to damage to the limbic system and
basal galia. Swearing in certain social situations can be positive and increase pain tolerance.
Swearing has an important function in human biopsychosocial Behavior. Indeed, there are
many negative things about swearing, but prohibiting them with the threat of criminal
punishment is not the best solution.