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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2010  
         
  Article:   LA PRATIQUE DES INSULTES À L’ÂGE DE L’ADOLESCENCE / THE PRACTICE OF INSULTS AT THE AGE OF ADOLESCENCE.

Authors:  IULIA MATEIU-INDREA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Practice of Insults at the Age of Adolescence. In this paper, we analyse the practice of insults by teenagers as a form of manifestation of verbal aggression. After the application of a questionnaire of 21 items on a sample of 90 subjects 14 -19 years old, we have identified 14 types of insults used in conflictual situations but also in friendly talks (insults used as nicknames; insults used as terms of address in communicating with familiar persons: friends, colleagues, family etc.).The analysis of the answers permitted us to identify also their contexts and some of the causes that can explain the frequency of this behaviour among teenagers: the influence of the family, of their teachers or of their group of friends. The types of insults identified also reflect the system of moral values and attitudes of teenagers, permitting a better characterization of this age.

Keywords: adolescence, aggression, insult, irony, swearing, nickname

 
         
     
         
         
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