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What the f : what swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves / / Benjamin K. Bergen
| What the f : what swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves / / Benjamin K. Bergen |
| Autore | Bergen Benjamin K. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Basic Books, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Disciplina | 401/.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Obscene words - Psychological aspects
Swearing - Psychological aspects Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects Languages, Modern - Obscene words - Psychological aspects Psychoanalytic interpretation Psycholinguistics SCIENCE / History LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-5416-9874-6
0-465-09648-4 |
| Classificazione | SCI034000LAN009000PSY031000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 1. Holy, Fucking, Shit, Nigger -- 2. What Makes a Four-Letter Word? -- 3. One Finger Is Worth a Thousand Words -- 4. The Holy Priest with the Vulgar Tongue -- 5. The Day the Pope Dropped the C-Bomb -- 6. Fucking Grammar -- 7. How Cock Lost Its Feather -- 8. Little Samoan Potty Mouths -- 9. Fragile Little Minds -- 10. The $100,000 Word -- 11. The Paradox of Profanity. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910163945303321 |
Bergen Benjamin K.
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| New York : , : Basic Books, , [2016] | ||
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Why we curse : a neuro-psycho-social theory of speech / / Timothy Jay
| Why we curse : a neuro-psycho-social theory of speech / / Timothy Jay |
| Autore | Jay Timothy |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401/.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Invective - Psychological aspects
Blessing and cursing - Psychological aspects Threat (Psychology) Verbal behavior |
| ISBN |
1-282-16274-8
9786612162749 90-272-9848-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
WHY WE CURSE; Title page; LCC page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; PART I. Introduction to the Study of Cursing; Chapter 1. Tourette Syndrome and Coprolalia: The Need for a Theory; Chapter 2. Psycholinguistics and Cursing; Chapter 3. The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Cursing; Chapter 4. Postulates of the NPS Theory; PART II. Neurological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 5. Propositional Speech, Nonpropositional Speech, and the Right Cerebral Hemisphere; Chapter 6. Emotional Speech and the Emotional Brain; Chapter 7. Anger and Verbal Aggression
Chapter 8. Coprolalia and Mental DisordersChapter 9. Neurological Control of Cursing; PART III. Psychological Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 10. Psychological Aspects of Cursing; Chapter 11. Language Acquisition and Cognitive Growth; Chapter 12. Memory and Awareness of Cursing; Chapter 13. Personality, Religiosity, and Sexual Anxiety; Chapter 14. Speech Habits and Social Learning; Chapter 15. The Sexual Lexicon; Chapter 16. Syntax and Semantics; PART I V. Social and Cultural Factors Underlying Cursing; Chapter 17. Pragmatics and Cultural Contexts; Chapter 18. Speaker Power Chapter 19. Gender IdentityChapter 20. Slang; Chapter 21. Humor Elicitation; Chapter 22. Religion, Taboo Speech, and Word Magic; Chapter 23. Scatology and The Language of Disgust; Chapter 24. Customary Restrictions: From Etiquette To Law; Chapter 25. Evolving Language Standards; Chapter 26. Tourette Syndrome: Cross-Cultural Comparisons; PART V. Why Do We Swear? Why Do We Choose The Words We Do?; Chapter 27. Social and Legal Issues Involving Cursing; Chapter 28. Ignorance, Misinformation, and Fallacies about Cursing; Chapter 29. Future of Cursing Research; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811780103321 |
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Jay Timothy
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| Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2000 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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