Swearing is good for you : the amazing science of bad language / Emma Byrne.
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2018Edition: First American editionDescription: pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781324000280 (hardcover)
- 179/.5 23
- P410.O27 .B97 2018
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: what the fuck is swearing? -- The bad language brain: neuroscience and swearing -- 'Fuck! that hurts': pain and swearing -- Tourette's syndrome, or why this chapter shouldn't be in this book -- Disciplinary offence: swearing in the workplace -- 'You damn dirty ape': (other) primates that swear -- No language for a lady: gender and swearing -- Schiesse, merde, cachau: swearing in other languages -- Conclusion.
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