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02656cam a2200421 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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941875482 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250203142224.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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160418s2016 nyuad b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2016007705 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780465060917 |
| Qualifying information |
hardcover |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0465060919 |
| Qualifying information |
hardcover |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9780465096480 |
| Qualifying information |
electronic book |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)941875482 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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YDX |
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YDXCP |
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BDX |
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BTCTA |
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SINLB |
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ON8 |
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JP3 |
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ABG |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
P410.O27 |
| Item number |
B47 2016 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
401/.9 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bergen, Benjamin K., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
What the f : |
| Remainder of title |
what swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Benjamin K. Bergen |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Basic Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2016] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vii, 271 pages : |
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charts, illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
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 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"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"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index |
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1 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Obscene words |
| General subdivision |
Psychological aspects |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Swearing |
| General subdivision |
Psychological aspects |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Blessing and cursing |
| General subdivision |
Psychological aspects |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Languages, Modern |
| General subdivision |
Obscene words |
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Psychological aspects |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Psychoanalytic interpretation |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Psycholinguistics |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3158 |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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| Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) |
u612845 |
| 903 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT C, LDC (RLIN) |
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33377 |