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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Bergen, Benjamin K., author.     Subjects     Obscene words -- Psychological aspects.     Swearing -- Psychological aspects.     Blessing and cursing -- Psychological aspects.     Languages, Modern -- Obscene words -- Psychological aspects.     Psychoanalytic interpretation.     Psycholinguistics.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bergen, Benjamin K., author.       by title:      What the f [electron...         MARC Display

What the f [electronic resource] : what swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves / Benjamin K. Bergen. by Bergen, Benjamin K., author. New York : Basic Books, [2016] Subjects Obscene words -- Psychological aspects.   Swearing -- Psychological aspects.   Blessing and cursing -- Psychological aspects.   Languages, Modern -- Obscene words -- Psychological aspects.   Psychoanalytic interpretation.   Psycholinguistics. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2667824 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=520d73db-01c9-46b3-a46d-c05ff066df3c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/6968-1/{520D73DB-01C9-46B3-A46D-C05FF066DF3C}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780465096480 (electronic bk.) 0465096484 (electronic bk.) 9780465060917 0465060919 Description:  1 online resource (vii, 271 pages ): charts, illustrations Requests:  0 Summary:  "Smart as hell and funny as fuck, this book explains why we can't stop swearing and what it tells us about our language and brains. Everyone swears. Only the rare individual can avoid ever letting slip an expletive. And yet, we ban the words from television and insist that polite people excise them from their vocabularies. That's a fucking shame. Not only is swearing colorful, fun, and often powerfully apt, as linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen shows us, the study of it can provide a new window onto how our brains process language. How can patients left otherwise speechless after a stroke still shout out "Goddamn!"? Why did Pope Francis say "fuck" in the middle of a speech? When did a cock cease to be a rooster? Why is "crap" vulgar when "poo" is just childish? And what are we shooting when we give someone the bird? What the F? Let me effing tell you"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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