What The F by Benjamin K. Bergen
What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
This book investigates the origins, meanings, and social functions of swear words—with a keen focus on the F‑word—drawing on linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, history, and experiments to show how profanity operates as a powerful, socially regulated tool for emotional expression, social bonding, and even pain relief; it examines brain studies and behavioral research, traces cultural and legal attitudes toward taboo language, and explains how people learn and deploy profanity differently across contexts.
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