Verbal Provocation between)

youth in the recent period :A

prospective Analysis in
(Adolescents

Semantic changes in human)

language: A linguistic analysis of

verbal provocation among youth in

(the Egyptian Society

Introduction

The word "harassment or forestation" have

unacceptable connotations morally and religiously
in the interaction between men and women.

Moreover these two words are relevant to the terms of

corruption, temptation, scratching and roughness.
So all these concepts could be noticed in harassment acts
towards women . This act is an attempt of the abuser,
to corrupt the morals of those whom he is
harassing with , also he can attract them to do bad
and unacceptable acts which are against the religious
.teachings

and social customs

It is clear from linguistic meanings that the

word "harassment" combines the word and the
deed, and it carries the meaning of roughness ,
agitation or light assault. The linguistic meaning in
Arabic and the semantic meaning in English agree
with the meaning of harassment which combines
the declaration and the deed , this led some people
to say that the harassment is the declaration
without the deed , and the deed is entered the

scope of disgracing. According to the Legal meaning the

word "harassment" has a little punishment than
the disgracing , the former includes hints ,
gestures , ogles, words , touches or whispers all
these acts are coming in law class than the
immaturity and violence in disgracing , but they
.hurt

the feelings of any respectable female

Importance of the study

The importance of this thesis is attributed to the idea that it
tries to discuss and analyze the verbal harassment among young
people semantically. Moreover this thesis highlights the role of
semantic change of this study so this study has a scientific and
.practical

importance and as well as a personal importance

Scientific importance

In this study, the researcher is going to deal with some

important concepts and terms concerning semantics , synonymy,
and antonym. In addition, the researcher is going to identify
some vernacular terms as examples of verbal harassment,
.admiration,

praise, courting, spinning, and many other attitudes

Practical significance
The practical significance of this study is that it aims at
including problems or considering it a phenomenon and one of
the most important community problems that affects women,
family and society. This study also includes an applied case
study on a group of Egyptian youth through a questionnaire
about the expansion of this phenomenon in the Egyptian
. society

The personal importance

This study represents a self-interest to the researchers in
studying such a case which is considered one of the most
important issues and social ill that facing the community and in

this sense, this study aims at discussing all this aspect

. semantically

Data collection
This study adopts the office sources of books and other
sources such as social media networks as facebook ,and a host
of movie clips Egyptian film as well as some Arabic
.newspapers

The objectives of the study

The current study attempts to achieve the following
:objectives

To discuss the semantic evolution of words by using the *

.descriptive

analytical method

To clarify the forms of harassment and the forms of verbal *

.harassment
*

development stages of language. Identify the different

. To

show the new words used by young people *

Literature review
: Provocation is tackled in many studies
Aggressive behavior is often engendered by "
provocations, which are actions or situations that
are aversive or stressful." (Berkowitz, 1984, 1989,
1990, 1993; Carlson & Miller, 1988; Dollard et al.,
1939; Geen, 1990; Huesmann, 1998). Provocations
have been operationalized as physical
provocations, such as intensity of electric shock or
noxious noise administered to the participant (i.e.,
by a confederate or experimenter; Bushman, 1995;
Giancola & Zeichner, 1995b; Taylor, 1967);
monetary or point penalties during a competitive
task (e.g., Bjork, Dougherty, & Moeller, 1997; Bjork
et al., 2000); verbal provocations, such as personal
insults (e.g., Berkowitz, 1960; Caprara, Passerini,
Pastorelli, Renzi, & Zelli, 1986; Caprara & Renzi,
1981); and frustration, such as failure to complete
a task or inability to participate752 BETTENCOURT,

TALLEY, BENJAMIN, AND VALENTINE in an activity

(e.g., , Geen 1968; Josephson, 1988; Rule & Percival,
.1971)

In criminal law, provocation is commonly

understood as any wrongful act or insult of such a
nature as to be likely, when done to an ordinary
person, to deprive him/her of self-control and to
cause him to retaliate physically under the heat of
the passion instigated by the provoker. So Oran
and Tosti (2009: 392) defines provocation loosely
as "an act by one person that triggers reaction in a
second". In Black's Law Dictionary provocation
refers to "something such as words or actions that
arouse anger and animosity in another causing
that person to respond in the heat of passion"
(1241). Oxford Dictionary of Law presents a more
detailed definition considering provocation ,"an any

conduct or words causing someone to lose his selfcontrol the testing for which is whether the acts or
words involved did in fact make the defendant lose
his self-control and if so, whether these acts or
words have made a reasonable man in the
."defendant's

position do the same (367)

It is noted that none of the various studies listed above

provide a purely semantic changes of verbal provocation among
young people. Therefore , the researcher will analyze the youth's
speech of use verbal provocation to explore the different lexical
.features

that have great expressive values deserved to be studied

Thesis plan
The main objective of this research is to discuss the new words
of verbal provocation. The researcher will use the descriptive
analytical method. This method is based on two important
phases. First, describing the linguistic phenomena in the speech

of youth, second, analyzing them carefully to know the reasons

.for

the change and the evolution of semantic words

Organization of the study in detail *

This thesis will be divided into an introduction, three chapters
.and conclusion

Introduction: It will focus on the topic , the purpose and

significance of the study , a review of the previous studies , and
other information about the research background .This chapter
will also study the importance of language as one of the
fundamental means of expression in human life . In addition, it
will discuss the important roles of semantics and semantic
.changes in analyzing the verbal harassment

Chapter One will be a brief account of harassment, and its

forms . Moreover it will show the opinions of some selected
persons as parents ,teachers, some students in schools and in
universities. Also it will highlight the definitions of harassment

in the dictionaries of criminal law ,and will show its penalties.

Also it will indicate to the political position in Egypt , and how
this phenomenon has a relation with the different movement in
Egypt . In addition , it will clarify the different types of verbal
. harassment with examples from Egyptian Media

Chapter Two will concentrate on the semantic analysis

features of these new words of verbal harassment. The
researcher will study and analyze the lexical fields in
harassment , for example , fields of (man ),
( freedom),and (racism) explaining their connotations.
After that the researcher will highlight the lexical items
separately in this words which include the repetition of
different kinds of words. Another point will be clarified
that is the semantic relations among different linguistic
expressions , usually words .Then the researcher will

discuss the semantic change and identify its types, also

studying its relation with the verbal harassment

Chapter Three

Four methods are at the speaker's disposal when a gap in the "
vocabulary has to be filled. He can either create a word from
scratch , or resort to one of the usual processes in the
formulation of words, or to borrow words from another
language, or to change the meanings of words that already
exist."( Stephen Ullmann. 1951) . So this chapter will indicate
. these four methods and apply them to the verbal harassment

As for the conclusion, it will provide a brief overview of the

whole study and its main results including the different semantic
features and semantic change of these new words which have
entered the language recently ,also mentioned the results of
. verbal revolution movement

Overview of Chapters

Introduction
The topic 0.1
The purpose of the study 0.2
The significance of the study 0.3
Literature review

0.4

Methodology 0.5
Data collection 0.5.1
The Framework

0.5.2

Definition of the terms

0.6

Language and linguistic 0.6.1

Semantic 0.6.2
Synonyms

0.6.3
Antonyms 0.6.5

Chapter 1: The basis of harassment between language and

.terminology

The definition of harassment and the verbal harassment

.in dictionaries

1.1

.The definition of harassment in the criminal law 1.2

The types of harassment, and the types of verbal
.harassment

1.3

Chapter 2: The semantic features and the semantic change of

verbal harassment
Lexical items 2.1
Pronouns 2.2
Adjectives

2.3
2.4 Semantic Relations

. Chapter 3: The evolution movement of language

Innovations

3.1

Word Formation
Borrowing

3.2

3.3

Changing in an existing words

3.4

Conclusion
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