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Is Death Taboo for Older Chinese Immigrants?

Omega, 2020
Much of the scholarly literature sees death as a taboo topic for Chinese. To test this assumption, this study held seven focus groups in the Greater Toronto Area in 2017. It found that the majority of the older Chinese immigrant participants talked about
Weiguo Zhang
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Dealing With Death Taboo: Discussion of Do-Not-Resuscitate Directives With Chinese Patients With Noncancer Life-Limiting Illnesses

The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2019
Background: Noncancer patients with life-limiting diseases often receive more intensive level of care in their final days of life, with more cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed and less do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in place. Nevertheless, death is
H. Cheng, Pui-Shan Karen Shek, C. Man, O. Chan, Chun-hung Chan, K. Lai, S. Cheng, K. Fung, Wk Lui, Carman Lam, Yuen-Kwan Ng, Wan-To Wong, C. Wong   +12 more
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Taboo in consumption: Social structure, gender and sustainable menstrual products

, 2020
Although consumption taboos are prevalent in everyday life, consumer research interest in the topic remains scant and focuses mostly on taboo products.
N. Meenakshi
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Taboo

Notes and Queries
The treatment of taboo language in translation poses a challenge to translators given that each language has its own stylistic and linguistic resources to describe things or actions that are considered prohibited, strong, offensive or vulgar. Not only is taboo language an important concept often analysed in translation studies (TS), especially in ...
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Arabic audiovisual translation of taboo words in American hip hop movies

Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation, 2019
This study aims to investigate and identify the connotative equivalence of taboo words in American hip hop/musical movies and their Arabic correspondence in the subtitle/Audiovisual Translation (AVT).
Noor F. Al-Yasin, Ghaleb Rabab’ah
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The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence

, 2020
Recent discussions have revived old claims that hereditarian research on race differences in intelligence has been subject to a long and effective taboo.
J. Jackson, A. Winston
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The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language defines taboo as a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable time in specifiable contexts.
Keith Allan
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Purity and Danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo

, 1967
C. Madge
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Taboo

1998
Abstract This chapter looks at the life of Josephine and her faithfully kept diary since her early teens. Josephine came from a wealthy and powerful family in Texas. At the age of sixteen or seventeen she married Jack Lewis, a travelling salesman but the marriage didn't last long because of Josephineɧs urges to liberate herself from the ...
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Offensive Language: Taboo, Offence and Social Control

, 2021
Timothy B. Jay
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