*During a swearing-in ceremony, Bruce Fischer, husband of Republican Senator Deb Fischer, refused to shake hands or make eye contact with Vice President Kamala Harris. While Senator Fischer thanked ...

Swearing was long dismissed as a topic of serious research because it was assumed to be simply a sign of aggression, weak language proficiency or even low intelligence. We now have quite a lot of ...

If you stub your toe or slam your finger in a door, there’s a good chance the first thing out of your mouth is a four-letter word. But although swearing is a near-universal feature of language, it is ...