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

• Jay, Timothy.

• Invective -- Psychological aspects.
• Blessing and cursing -- Psychological aspects.
• Threat (Psychology)
• Verbal behavior.

• John Benjamins Publishing Company,

• 1556197586 (alk. paper)

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

• Cursing in America a psycholinguistic study of dirty language in the courts in the movies in the schoolyards and on the streets
• Sequence organization in interaction
• Laughter in interaction
• Pragmatics
• Language the sexes and society
• Texts and practices readings in critical discourse analysis
• cultural history of humour from antiquity to the present day
• news interview journalists and public figures on the air
• Language text and context essays in stylistics
• Pragmatics
• Taking humour seriously
• Conversation analysis studies from the first generation
• Approaches to discourse
• Gender voices
• Phonology
• Narrative a critical linguistic introduction
• frameworks of English introducing language structures
• introduction to sociolinguistics
• How to do things with words the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955
• Telephone conversation
• Doing pragmatics
• On humour its nature and its place in modern society
• Language and gender interdisciplinary perspectives
• Style in fiction a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose
• Textual intervention critical and creative strategies for literary studies
• handbook of child language
• Politeness some universals in language usage
• More than cool reason a field guide to poetic metaphor
• Stylistics a resource book for students
• First language acquisition
• Discovering language the structure of modern English
• introduction to English language word sound and sentence
• Metaphors we live by
• language of humour
• Doing conversation analysis a practical guide
• introduction to sociolinguistics
• language of humour
• Everyday conversation
• Exploring the language of poems plays and prose
• Sociolinguistics a resource book for students
• Principles of pragmatics
• Conversation analysis principles practices and applications
• Pragmatics an introduction
• Dialects
• Understanding pragmatics
• Language ideology and point of view
• Meaning in interaction an introduction to pragmatics
• Conversation analysis the study of talk in interaction
• Pragmatics
• Language and power