<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">In "Practical English Usage" (<a href="https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/grammar_vocabulary/practical_english_usage/">https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/grammar_vocabulary/practical_english_usage/</a>), Swan lists some 'taboo words'.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">If you are looking for insult words, you can take these taboo words or you can collect words with high negative meaning from different corpora of affective words, for example, Whissell's Dictionary of Affective Language. Such affective words are simultaneously insult words.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">However, there are only few examples when insult words are used explicitly in a NL text. Sally Planalp collects statistics of emotion word use that confirms that there are only insignificant number of explicit cases where emotion words are used in real NLP utterances to convey the emotional meaning. They rather use implicit cues that is influenced by the context.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">I would collect words in their NL context and consider approaches by Janyce Wiebe. Here "</span><font face="garamond, serif">Creating Subjective and Objective Sentence</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><font face="garamond, serif">Classifiers from Unannotated Texts" </font><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="http://people.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/pubs/papers/Temp/cicling05.pdf">http://people.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/pubs/papers/Temp/cicling05.pdf</a>.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">HTH</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Alexander</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-04-14 5:30 GMT+02:00 Jim Fidelholtz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fidelholtz@gmail.com" target="_blank">fidelholtz@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi, All,<div><br></div><div>You might try _Anatomy of the dirty joke_ (2 vols.) by Gershon Legman for a thorough analysis of that topic. I don't remember if he gives (even implicitly) a categorization of 'offensive language', but you'd certainly get at least a lot of data. He collected another two volumes called (anonymously) _The limerick_, with, as I recall, about a thousand entries in each volume, of wildly varied quality,but, as limericks are wont to be, almost all at least moderately offensive. Likewise, you might look through the journal _Maledicta_ (started in the 70's) and other such journals, and check out books or articles on 'taboo' and related terms. You should also check out writings in the fields of Anthropology and Sociology on this and related topics, as well as handbooks and other general works in Anth., Soc., Linguistics, etc. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>James L. Fidelholtz<br>Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje<br>Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades<br>Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Emad Mohamed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emohamed@umail.iu.edu" target="_blank">emohamed@umail.iu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello All,<br>Is there a categorization of insults / derogatory words?<br><br></div><div>I'm thinking of something like:<br></div><div>-ethnic insults<br></div><div>-insults attacking mental abilities<br>
</div><div>-insults attacking religion<br></div><div>-insults attacking physical traits <br><br></div><div>and so on.<br></div><div><br><br></div><div>Google has failed me so far. Maybe I'm not using the right search terms. I would appreciate your help.<br>
<br></div><div>Thank you</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Emad Mohamed<br></font></div><div><font size="1">Suez University,<br></font></div>
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