Presidential Profanity in Duterte's Philippines: How Swearing Discursively Constructs a Populist Regime

• Main Authors: Montiel, Cristina Jayme, Uyheng, Joshua, de Leon, Nmanuel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: swear words; authoritarian populism; political discourse; duterte; social network analysis; critical discourse analysis; Discourse and Text Linguistics; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Personality and Social Contexts; Political Science; Politics and Social Change; Public Administration; Social Psychology and Interaction
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/323; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0261927X211065780
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Swearing in public discourse represents a contentious rhetorical feature of populist leaders’ transgressive politics. This paper argues that, beyond constituting merely “offensive” speech, swearing generatively accomplishes a host of discursive functions which contribute to the fortification of a po...