2.3 Modern methods and different activities for
teaching vulgarisms.
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According to Harvard
linguist Steven Pinker, in
addition to verbal abuse, swear words have a variety of
other important uses, including to
add emphasis, to
convey emotion, to find relief from pain, and quite
importantly, to connect people in a
relaxed social
atmosphere. [30, 149]
. Given the fact that most people learn English from books and traditional
schools, they are never given the opportunity to learn how to use them
responsibly, so they either:
(a) totally avoid them
(b) abuse them and offend people.
Avoiding them is clearly the best of these
two options, and if we’re
dealing with young children or emotionally immature adults, it is probably
the only option.
However, for those of you who are capable of paying attention to context,
listening, and developing the necessary understanding
AND cultural
sensitivity to use them with caution, I’m going to introduce
a
responsible and
effective approach to learning curse words.
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In fact, swear words are even programmed into our brains in a
different way. While language processing is generally a
higher
brain function and uses the
cerebral cortex, swear
words are
based on emotion, which is considered a
lower brain function,
and uses
limbic system and basal ganglia.
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