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CURSING, SEXUAL HARASSMENT, PROFANITY, OBSCENITY AND EPITHET IN DALLAS BUYERS CLUB MOVIE

open access: yesJournal of Applied Linguistics and Literature, 2020
Taboo words are words that are strictly prohibited to be used due to the fact that they may cause misunderstanding or conflict and are not appropriate. Therefore, it is important to understand taboo words in order to avoid using inappropriate words.This ...
Imelda Woa Wene, Ouda Teda Ena
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On Extralinguistic Motivation in Semantic Change: Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [PDF]

open access: yesAcademic Journal of Modern Philology, 2023
This article is meant to be a contribution to the study of the multifaceted nature of taboo and euphemism that represent those linguistic mechanisms that are created by the working of both overt and covert social and psychological factors.
Grzegorz A. Kleparski
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TABOO WORDS IN DELI JAVANESE DIALECT

open access: yesLanguage Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2021
This research was focused on taboo words used in Deli Javananese dialect. It was aimed at describing the classification of taboo words used in Deli Javanese dialect namely sex; death; excretion; bodily functions; religious matters; and politics and to ...
Zuindra Zuindra   +2 more
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The mission of folk beliefs in the novel Rih al Djanoub: A focus on taboos and superstitions [PDF]

open access: yesنقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2020
The folk culture denotes the aboriginal culture and knowledge covering tangible and intangible entities such as literary and artistic products, beliefs and customs, science and technology, and the common practices.
Jamshid Ghasemi   +3 more
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Oral health-related taboos and oral health status among a South Indian Tribal population: A descriptive study

open access: yesJournal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2023
Introduction: Health being a biological and social entity makes an important contribution to economic progress. Though we live in the 21st century still many underserved communities are lacking to adopt healthy lifestyles.
Vikram Simha Bommireddy
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Taboo semantics [PDF]

open access: yes2014 5th IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2014
PUBLISHED IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1426R-USB ISBN 978-1-4799-7279-1 ...
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Duch Havlíčkův a jiné problémy. O vydávání klasického autora | The Ghost of Havlíček and Other Problems: On the Publication of a Classical Author [PDF]

open access: yesSlovo a Smysl, 2019
Since his death, Karel Havlíček Borovský (1821–1856) has been seen by the Czech public as a ‘national martyr’ (a view not entirely upheld by historical facts), as well as a symbol of courage, defiance and forthrightness.
Václav Vaněk
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The Effect of Taboo Content on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in a Foreign Language: A Facial Expression Analysis Study [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Psychologica, 2019
This study aims to examine how taboo content affects language learner psychology and language learning gains in a multi-modal learning environment by using facial expression analysis.
Emrah Dolgunsöz
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Legal Taboos

open access: yesJusletter IT, 2018
The authors formalise a taboo as a prohibition on speaking (informing). Three levels of norms are distinguished. First are basic prohibitions, Forbidden X, i.e. norms which prohibit basic actions, Norm(¬X). Second-level norms comprise primary taboos which prohibit information about facts or fakes, Norm(¬Inf(X)), but permit them to happen.
Čyras, Vytautas, Lachmayer, Friedrich
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Teaching Taboo in the Classroom

open access: yesScientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023
The goal of the paper is to show how important it is to teach taboo in the classroom. The teaching of taboos is a rather new approach in education. Based on both classical (language dictionaries) and modern (internet sites) sources, the authors define ...
Georgeta Raţă, Elena-Mirela Samfira
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