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"Um…Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean"
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New York, USA (NY Times): It was Freud who proposed, in “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life,” that seemingly random verbal errors and self-interruptions could be seen as uncensored signals flashed from the unconscious. Contemporary with Freud a handful of language scholars were tuning into the idea that verbal mistakes, examined closely enough, followed certain patterns and could shed light on the way language works.
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www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/books/24book.html?ref=arts
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