A Linguistic Analysis of curse words in Shoushtari Dialect

As a class of linguistic tools, reveal the user's personal emotions and feelings as well as sociolinguistic attitudes of the society. The objectives of the present study were to classify common curse words used in Shoushtar city, Iran, and to examine the effect of social variables of age, gender, ethnicity and education on its usage. The present descriptive-analytic research was carried out by direct observation and a questionnaire. From among 160 examinees, 140 answered the questions completely and their answers were analyzed by means of statistic tests. The study indicate that both women and men of Shoushtar use 4 classes of curse words when they are angry or upset. The results indicate that from among the above-mentioned social variables, age and gender have a significant effect on the use of these words (P= 0.015); men use more curse words than women and 15-19 year-old examinees use them more than the other age-groups. Moreover, the variables of ethnicity and education have no significant effect on the use of curse words in Shoushtari language society(P= 0.89).