Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1, Introduction: Taboo Words and Swearing
• Part I: The Bawdy Basics
• Chapter 2, Grammar, Grammar, Grammar
• Chapter 3, "If You Say 'Jehovah' Once More ...": The Use/Mention Distinction
• Chapter 4, What We Mean When We Talk about Meaning: The Informational, Emotional, and Social Aspects of Meaning
• Chapter 5, Do Swear Words "Just Sound Bad"?: The Arbitrariness of Language
• Part II: The Dirty Details
• Chapter 6, X-Phemisms: The Good, the Bad, and the Straight
• Chapter 7, Fornicating Under Consent of the King vs. *Pug: Historical Swearing
• Chapter 8, Morphofreaking-phonology
• Chapter 9, Taboo Sentence Structures
• Chapter 10, Tabernacles, Names, Menses, Animals, and Mothers-in-Law: Cross-Cultural Taboos
• Chapter 11, Learning to Swear in a Second Language
• Chapter 12, This Is Your Brain on Taboo Words: Psychoswearing
• Chapter 13, Socio-Swearing: Do Men Do It More Than Women?
• Chapter 14, "When You Call Me That, Smile": Context
• Chapter 15, Deleting Expletives