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008 160418s2016 nyuad b 001 0 eng
010 2016007705
020 9780465060917|q(hardcover)
020 0465060919|q(hardcover)
020 |z9780465096480|q(electronic book)
035 (OCoLC)941875482
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050 00 P410.O27|bB47 2016
082 00 401/.9|223
084 SCI034000|aLAN009000|aPSY031000|2bisacsh
092 401.9|bB495W
100 1 Bergen, Benjamin K.,|eauthor.
245 10 What the f :|bwhat swearing reveals about our language,
our brains, and ourselves /|cBenjamin K. Bergen.
264 1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c[2016]
300 vii, 271 pages :|bcharts, illustrations ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and
index.
505 0 Holy, fucking, shit, nigger -- What makes a four-letter
word? -- One finger is worth a thousand words -- The holy
priest with the vulgar tongue -- The day the Pope dropped
the c-bomb -- Fucking grammar -- How cock lost its
feathers -- Little Samoan potty mouths -- Fragile little
minds -- The $100,000 word -- The paradox of profanity.
520 "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"--|cProvided by
publisher.
650 0 Obscene words|xPsychological aspects.
650 0 Swearing|xPsychological aspects.
650 0 Blessing and cursing|xPsychological aspects.
650 0 Languages, Modern|xObscene words|xPsychological aspects.
650 0 Psychoanalytic interpretation.
650 0 Psycholinguistics.
650 4 Language and languages.
650 4 Psycholinguistics.
650 4 Swearing|xPsychological aspects.
650 4 Words, obscene|xPsychological aspects.
650 4 Languages, Modern|xObscene words|xPsychological aspects.
650 4 Psychoanalytic interpretation.
650 7 SCIENCE|xHistory.|2bisacsh
650 7 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES|xLinguistics|xGeneral.
|2bisacsh
650 7 PSYCHOLOGY|xSocial Psychology.|2bisacsh
650 12 Language.
650 12 Verbal Behavior.
650 12 Brain.
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