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Part 1 Introduction to the study of cursing: Tourette syndrome andCoprolalia - the need for a theory; psycholinguistics and cursing; theneuro-psycho-social theory of cursing; postulates of the NPS theory. Part 2Neurological factors underlying cursing: propositional speech,nonpropositional speech, and the right cerebral hemisphere; emotional speechand the emotional brain; anger and verbal aggression; Coprolalia and mentaldisorders; neurological control of cursing. Part 3 Psychological factorsunderlying cursing: psychological aspects of cursing; language acquisitionand cognitive growth; memory and awareness of cursing; personality,religiosity, and sexual anxiety; speech habits and social learning; thesexual lexicon; syntax and semantics. Part 4 Social and cultural factorsunderlying cursing: pragmatics and cultural contexts; speaker power; genderidentity; slang; humour elicitation; religion, taboo speech, and word magic;scatology and the language of disgust; customary restrictions - frometiquette of law; evolving language standards; Tourette syndrome-cross-cultural comparisons. Part 5 Why do we swear? why do we choose thewords we do? social and legal issues involving cursing; ignorance,misinformation, and fallacies about cursing; future of cursing research.