CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jesus, Dysphemism, Basal Ganglia
2 Feb 2016
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Language as a window of emotion swearing. Bono says, this is really really fucking brilliant. The network didn"t bleep out swear word. Didn"t get fined because indecency means: material that describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities . The words activate brain areas associated with negative emotion (right hemisphere, basal ganglia - production, and amygdala - perception) The words are processed involuntarily (can only hear that word with a link to negative emotion) Swearing = using a language as a weapon to force a listener to think an unpleasant (or at least an emotionally charged) thought. Cripple, nigger (the worst), wop, kike, dago. Dysphemism swearing: talking about feces and fecal matter: ex: will you pick up your dog shit, strong words for strong emotion expressed. Lets of steam (the hydraulic theory: 2. Mammals: when suddenly injured or confined, emit sudden angry noise to startle attacker.
