Uppsatsen undersöker användande av fult språk i klassrummet på en högstadieskola i Mellansverige, ett fält inom språksociologin som är i ständig förändring. Syftet med uppsatsen är att utforska det fula språket utifrån tre frågor som behandlar bland annat språkets funktion och användares språkliga anpassning efter mottagare. Genom observationsstudier utförda i flera olika högstadieklasser under en treveckorsperiod i huvudsakligen svenskämnet antecknas elevernas språk och beteenden i olika kontexter. Analysen visar att fult språk förekommer i viss mån, och de ord som förekommer oftast är engelskans ”fuck” och ”fucking”. Dessutom uppdagades det att eleverna har en god förmåga att anpassa sitt språk efter mottagare, då det fula språket var vanligare när läraren inte var närvarande.Observationerna utmynnade i tre resultatkategorier: svordomar, pejoriserande och tystande, som beskriver hur det fula språket används och hur detta skapar en betydelse i skolkontexten.

Casual sexual relationships are common forms of modern sexual relationships. Researchers are paying increased attention to these relationship types, but have been remiss in ensuring that the definitions of the relationships under investigation match participants’ conceptualizations. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is to determine whether definitions and behavioural scripts for casual sexual relationships can be identified. In Study 1, 23 young adults discussed initiation, maintenance, and termination components of various casual sexual relationships in focus groups and developed consensus definitions for each relationship. Each focus group independently identified four casual sexual relationships: One Night Stand, Booty Call, Fuck Buddies, and Friends with Benefits. These four relationships were the focus of subsequent exploration. Building on the qualitative descriptions created in the focus groups, an online survey was used to determine whether relationship definitions and associated script behaviours could be confirmed in a larger sample (N = 885). In Study 2, a restricted age subsample (i.e., 18-29 years) was used to determine if emerging adults endorsed the proposed definitions. A majority of the sample endorsed the definitions for One Night Stand (96%), Booty Call (93%), Fuck Buddies (83%), and Friends with Benefits (87%). A larger proportion of individuals with sexual intercourse experience endorsed the definitions compared to those without sexual intercourse experience, while previous casual sex experience did not affect definition endorsements. Women demonstrated greater precision in identifying the definitions. In Study 3, the full sample of 885 participants was used to identify the specific script behaviours associated with each relationship. Using behaviourally descriptive items (N = 62) derived from Study 1, participants identified 12 script items for One Night Stand, Booty Call, and Friends with Benefits and 10 script items for Fuck Buddies. Individuals with previous sexual intercourse experience were more adept at identifying the specific behavioural script items, while previous casual sex experience did not affect script endorsements. Again, women were particularly adept at identifying the specific script items. Overall, these findings suggest that specific definitions and respective scripts exist for the One Night Stand, Booty Call, Fuck Buddies, and Friends with Benefits relationships. This knowledge appears broad and may be considered as socio-cultural knowledge of young adults. Numerous implications flow from the understanding that young adults implicitly know what behaviours are associated with these popular forms of casual sexual relationships. Researchers need to ensure they use scientifically sound definitions in order to develop a more sophisticated lexicon of (casual sex) relationships and understand how modern sexual relationships fit within the scope of potential relationship options.

This study is an analysis of how the artworks Övermålning, God Giving a Fuck and Lesbisk häxhora by Carolina Falkholt can be interpreted and received by the surrounding society. To do this, the study uses a semiotic image analysis and a reception history analysis. The study has its base in a feminist perspective as well as in art sociology, to further deepen the analysis with different perspectives and in connection to the society and societal norms. The result of this study shows that there are multiple ways to interpret the motifs of the artworks by Carolina Falkholt. They can be seen as a political statement to shed light on feminist struggles and the beauty of the nude female body and the vagina, but also as actively provocative art where the female body is violated as a result of being displayed in a public setting. However, the study also discusses how the works of Carolina Falkholt have previously been renowned and praised by art institutions, and how her work continues to find success, with added inquiries of her work in public settings, despite regulations. Therefore, the study concludes that the artworks by Carolina Falkholt is qualified to be seen as art that advances and favor Swedish culture, regardless of the negative feedback the art has received.

Protocole d'entente entre l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. / Cette étude établit le statut d’infixe de l’emprunt fuckin’ en français québécois parlé à Montréal. L’infixation de fuckin’ est un phénomène bien connu en anglais, mais qui n’a fait l’objet d’aucune étude approfondie en français du Québec jusqu’à maintenant. Une analyse de 1200 tweets du français parlé à Montréal et de près de 1000 tweets de l’anglais a permis de décrire et de quantifier les usages de fuckin’ pour la zone géographique à l’étude. Cette analyse révèle que la grammaticalisation de fuckin’ est en cours en français parlé à Montréal et que les usages morphologiques de fuckin’ ont bel et bien intégré cette variété de français. Pour mieux explorer le phénomène en question en synchronie, cette contribution compare les usages de fuckin’ en français avec ses usages en anglais. La comparaison des deux corpus de tweets indique que l’infixation n’est pas plus ancrée dans l’usage en anglais qu’en français et que le statut de l’infixation est similaire dans les deux langues, du moins à Montréal. Il semble cependant que le processus d’infixation diffère, entre autres en raison de la structure accentuelle différente de l’anglais et du français.