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¿Puras Groserías? : Rethinking the Role of Profanity and Graphic Humor in L atin@ Students' Bilingual Wordplay
Author(s) -
Martínez Ramón Antonio,
Morales P. Zitlali
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12074
Subject(s) - solidarity , transgressive , ethnic group , creativity , comics , construct (python library) , linguistics , sociology , psychology , social psychology , literature , computer science , art , philosophy , anthropology , sedimentary depositional environment , paleontology , structural basin , politics , political science , law , biology , programming language
This article explores the role of profanity and graphic humor in the bilingual wordplay of L atin@ middle school students. We highlight the creativity, skill, and communicative competence embedded in this transgressive wordplay, revealing how these youth employed profanity and graphic humor to index ethnic solidarity and construct bilingual identities. We argue that further exploration of such wordplay might well reveal other functions and meanings that are obscured when it is simply dismissed as inappropriate.