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Title

Why we curse : a neuro-psycho-social theory of speech / Timothy Jay.

Author

Jay, Timothy

Publication

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000.

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Description

xv, 328 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and unites them to explain and describe the psychological, neurological, cultural and linguistic factors that underlie this phenomenon.

Subject

• Anger
• Blessing and cursing > Psychological aspects
• Bénédiction et malédiction > Aspect psychologique
• Comportement verbal
• Expressed Emotion
• Invective > Psychological aspects
• Invectives > Aspect psychologique
• Menace (Psychologie)
• Psycholinguistics > methods
• Threat (Psychology)
• Verbal Behavior
• Verbal behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-317) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the Study of Cursing -- Tourette Syndrome and Coprolalia: The Need for a Theory -- What We Don't Know about Tourette Syndrome -- Coprolalia Reveals a Nexus for Cursing -- Plan of the Book -- Psycholinguistics and Cursing -- What Is "Cursing"? -- Academia, Language, and Cursing -- Cursing Research Ignored throughout the History of Language Research -- Cursing Research Ignored in Experimental Psychology -- Perceptual Defense -- Psycholinguistics -- Historical-Social and Dictionary Approaches to Cursing -- Cursing Is Verbal Behavior -- What Is "Language"? -- The Neuro-Psycho-Social (NPS) Theory of Cursing -- Postulates of the NPS Theory -- Supporting and Integrating the Postulates -- Each Person Learns the Grammar of Cursing -- Neurological Factors Underlying Cursing -- Propositional Speech, Nonpropositional Speech, and the Right Cerebral Hemisphere -- Aphasia and Left Hemisphere Brain Damage (LBD) -- Cursing Research after Broca and Jackson -- The Work of Van Lancker and Code -- Other Neurological Reports Linking the RH to Cursing -- The Right Hemisphere and the NPS Theory -- Emotional Speech and the Emotional Brain -- From Behaviorism to Information Processing Models of Speech -- The Emotional Gap in Psychological Research -- The Emotional and Verbal Brain -- Emotion and Subcortical Areas -- Response Cries -- Emotions and Emotion Words -- The NPS Theory: Cursing and Emotion -- Anger and Verbal Aggression -- Cursing and Anger: Field Studies of Emotional Speech -- Anger and Brain Functions -- Forms of Verbal Aggression.

ISBN

• 1556197586 (alk. paper)
• 9027221863

LCCN

^^^99029156^

OCLC

41326687

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library