Rintell, Ellen 174
Risch, Barbara 157–8
Robbins, Megan 63–5
Romanes, George 121–2
Rubin, Joan 160
Russian 7
S
Sade, Marquis de 192
Sagarin, Brad 111–12
Salinger, J. D. 195–6
Saunders, James 113, 115–17
Scarface 193
Scherer, Cory 111–12
schizophrenia 69
sexuality 149, 152–3
sexuality-based slurs 15
and gender 165
public attitudes to 13
and social class 11
Seymour-Smith, Sarah 62–3
Shakespeare, William 8–9, 14
shit
constructions 11, 12
football fans 3–4
ice-water experiment 58–9
Tourette’s Syndrome 70
sign language
chimpanzees 120, 123–5, 127, 129, 130–40
coprolalia 71
Skinner, B. F. 127
slur-based swearing 7, 10, 13
see also disability-based slurs; race-based slurs; sexuality-based slurs
Smith, Heather 92
social class 11, 167
social pain 59–61
Spanish 8, 172, 184, 192–5, 198
speech
aphasia 28–9, 30–3
and class 167
directness 146, 147–9, 154
Stapleton, Karyn 153–4, 163–4, 168–9
Stephens, Richard 46–9, 52–3, 57–8
stepmother tongues 175–83
Stillwell, David 112–13
stress 3, 20, 80
stroke patients 16, 33–4, 69
Stroop test 78–9, 179–81
Stuss, Donald 35
subcortex 9
swearing 5–13, 16, 20, 200–1
and brain 16–17, 25, 26, 29–33, 34, 35–6, 37–8, 44–5, 69
changes over time 5, 13, 14–15
chimpanzees 120, 134–9
constructions 11–12
coprographia 71, 73
coprolalia 66, 67, 68–71, 79–80, 85, 91
definitions 6–10
development of 119–20, 143
and emotions 37–8, 43, 45, 49–50
in English-speaking countries 17–19
fight against 98–101
and gender 1–2, 16, 145–69
and honesty 112–17
and illness 61–5
Lancaster Corpus of Abuse 156
in other languages 7–8, 170–98
and pain 46–50, 53, 57–9
propositional and non-propositional 16–17
public attitudes to 4, 12–13, 17–18
research into 3–4, 30–2
as rhetoric 111–18
and social class 11
and social pain 61
translation 191–8
in the workplace 93–118
Swedish 195–6
T
taboos 6, 7, 10–11, 143, 184
changes over time 3, 5, 14
Tannen, Deborah 147
Tatu (chimpanzee) 127, 130, 131–2, 139, 140–1
team bonding 1–3, 94, 95, 102, 103, 105
Terrace, Herbert 121, 123–5
thalamus 86–7
Timm, Lenora 157, 160, 163, 167
Tinbergen, Niko 130
tosser 19
Tourette’s Syndrome (TS) 66–80, 92
behavioral approaches 88–91
and brain 72, 80–4
coprolalia 66, 67, 68–71, 79–80, 91
and executive function 77–9
and impulse control 75–9
tics 67–8, 73, 80, 83, 88–90, 91
treatments 84–8, 91
translation 191–8
twat 1, 19
12 Days of Sodom (de Sade) 192
U
United States
gender and swearing 153, 156–8, 160
and UK swearing 18–19
workplace swearing 93–4, 98–101, 110
see also American English
unpropositional swearing 69, 91
V
valence 52
van der Heijden, Simone 113–15
Van Lancker, Diana 31–2, 85
vulva, manko 7
W
Wadman, Ruth 74–5
wanker 19
Washoe (chimpanzee) 126–7, 130–42
Webster’s dictionary 10
whinges 102
Wilde, Oscar 11
Wilhelm, Sabine 88–9
Williams, Edward H. 22–3
women
cancer sufferers 63–5
genitalia 7
indirectness of speech 146, 147–9
liberation 160
menstruation 10
social roles 150–1
swearing at 157, 165–6
swearing by 1–2, 16, 145–7, 148–9, 150, 151–2, 153–5, 156–69, 186
workplace swearing 95–6, 100, 104, 145
see also girls
workplace 1–3, 20, 93–4, 145, 146
academic study of bants 94–8
appreciative inquiry 101–7
banter backlash 98–101
importance of taking the piss 107–11
swearing as rhetoric 111–18
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) 168
Wynn, Thomas 192
Y
Yerkes, Robert 122, 126, 129
Z
zounds 14
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