how common is it to see the "f-word" or other explitives in academic journals?

Question

I read a lot of social science, cultural studies-type journals, and from time to time I see the f-word used (almost always in quotation marks as said by someone else, and not in the author's own words).

Is this common?
Are there any rules about printing explitives in academic journals?

Answer 1

I see them often in the Academic Journals I read for school. The majority of the time the F-word is used during an interview or a quote from someone, usually in studies dealing with Urban areas and youth. I have read one in which the author was the one doing the majority of the swearing but he was talking to urban youth and using the vernacular that they them self use.

Answer 2

Expletives are not used in academic journals except in the manner you described. I have read many peer-reviewed linguistic/TESOL articles, and expletives are used only when they are the subject of study.

I think the only rules are unwritten: the use of such coarse language must be justified by the academic insight the analysis of their use offers. The same would be true of derogatory slurs.

Answer 3

Well don't do it too much as it will offend readers. And it would be REALLY out of context if you were writing, say, an academic paper on science or math and not on sociology, culture-study type stuff.

Answer 4

i'm no longer a psychologist... yet. i will college to develop into one and that i see the way it would worry some. I answer on right here from own adventure and by no ability from e book smarts fairly some the time. It probable would worry me although if I were a approved psychologist although.

Answer 5

I've herd it said that the "F" word is English's most diverse word. I have yet to hear any one use it constructively or creatively.