Smart as hell and funny as fuck, What the F is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear. In this groundbreaking yet ebullient romp through the linguistic muck, Bergen answers intriguing questions: How can patients left otherwise speechless after a stroke still shout "Goddamn!" when they get upset? When did a "cock" grow to be more than merely a rooster? Why is "crap" vulgar when "poo" is just childish? Do slurs make you treat people differently? Why is the first word that Samoan children say not "mommy" but "eat shit"? And why do we extend a middle finger to flip someone the bird?
And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. Nearly everyone swears whether it s over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. Bergen discusses What the F: What Swearing Reveals about Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves. In Jan-Ola Östman and Miriam Fried (Eds.), Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions.With articles appearing in the Huffington Post and Psychology Today, UC San Diego Professor of Cognitive Science Benjamin K. Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding. Cognitive Science 31: 733-764.īergen, Benjamin, and Nancy Chang. Spatial and linguistic aspects of visual imagery in sentence comprehension. Brain and Language, 112(3), 150-158.īergen, Benjamin, Shane Lindsay, Teenie Matlock, and Srini Narayanan. Grammatical aspect and mental simulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 142(1): 119-130.īergen, B., Wheeler, K. The crosstalk hypothesis: Why language interferes with driving. Cognition 127(3):361-74.īergen, Benjamin, Nathan Medeiros-Ward, Kathryn Wheeler, Frank Drews, & David Strayer. The case of the missing pronouns: Does mentally simulated perspective play a functional role in the comprehension of person?. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Finding Non-Arbitrary Form-Meaning Systematicity Using String-Metric Learning for Kernel Regression. Lichtenstein Grammatical aspect, gesture, and conceptualization: Using co-speech gesture to reveal event representations Abstract: Grammatical aspect is a pervasive linguistic device that, according to linguistic analyses, allows speakers to encode different ways of construing events.
Gutierrez, E.D., Roger Levy, & Benjamin Bergen. Louder than words: The new science of how the mind makes meaning. What the F: What swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves.
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