Table 6 Total number and percentage of softening strategy in the four investigated movie genres.
Swear word | Drama | Action | Sci-Fi | Biography | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Soft. | % | Total | Soft. | % | Total | Soft. | % | Total | Soft. | % | |
Fuck | 692 | 108 | 16% | 59 | 20 | 34% | 89 | 33 | 37% | 37 | 9 | 24% |
Shit | 134 | 32 | 24% | 45 | 9 | 20% | 60 | 26 | 43% | 51 | 13 | 25% |
Damn | 22 | 9 | 41% | 30 | 4 | 13% | 31 | 9 | 29% | 15 | 3 | 20% |
Ass | 24 | 4 | 17% | 35 | 3 | 9% | 14 | 1 | 7% | 20 | 6 | 30% |
Bitch | 31 | 13 | 42% | 25 | 8 | 32% | 9 | 6 | 67% | 6 | 5 | 83% |
Bastard | 7 | 3 | 43% | 12 | 7 | 58% | 6 | 3 | 50% | 12 | 6 | 50% |
Asshole | 17 | 9 | 53% | 12 | 8 | 67% | 10 | 5 | 50% | 17 | 7 | 41% |
Dick | 12 | 5 | 42% | 2 | 1 | 50% | 3 | 1 | 33% | 3 | 2 | 67% |
Cunt | 9 | 5 | 56% | 3 | 2 | 67% | 1 | 1 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 100% |
Pussy | 5 | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 100% | 2 | 2 | 100% | 0 | 0 | 0% |
Total | 953 | 189 | 20% | 224 | 63 | 28% | 225 | 87 | 39% | 162 | 51 | 32% |
