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TABOO OR NOT TABOO, THAT IS THE QUESTION: LANGUAGE AS VERBAL BEHAVIOR

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Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2022
The academic literature on taboo language is flourishing not only in fields such as linguistic anthropology or sociolinguistics, but also in disciplines that usually target language itself as the object of study. Although there is more than a century of scholarly writing on taboo language, new and neglected areas and directions continue to provide ...
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Taboo expressions in American Sign Language

Lingua, 2012
Abstract This is an introduction to taboo expressions in ASL. Several word-formation processes are exploited in coining ASL taboo-terms, most also exploited by non-taboo terms. Further, ASL taboo terms are both entrenched and clever (sometimes humorous). This is expected if the entrenchment vs.
Mirus, G., Fisher, J., Napoli, Donna Jo
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Taboo in Sign Languages

2023
Taboo topics in deaf communities include the usual ones found in spoken languages, as well as ones particular to deaf experiences, both in how deaf people relate to hearing people and how deaf people interact with other deaf people. Attention to these topics can help linguists understand better the consequences of field method choices and lead them to ...
Donna Jo Napoli, Jami Fisher, Gene Mirus
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Taboo Language

2022
As taboo language among women and men becomes more common, an understanding of how taboo language is used is necessary. Unfortunately, studies have returned mixed results at once finding taboo language is associated with negative emotions while also finding taboo language is associated with positive emotions.
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Taboo language in translation

Perspectives, 1997
Abstract This article discusses the notion of equivalence from a descriptive and target‐oriented perspective. The first part of the article deals with this notion from a theoretical point of view and argues that equivalence has a heuristic value in Translation Studies provided one does not adopt a prescriptive and source‐oriented perspective.
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Taboo words and language

2018
Taboo refers to a proscription of behaviour for a specifiable community of one or more persons at a specifiable time in specifiable contexts. For behaviour to be proscribed it must be perceived as in some way harmful to an individual or their community but the degree of harm can fall anywhere on a scale from a breach of etiquette to out-and-out ...
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BODY LANGUAGE AND TABOO

Body language plays a crucial role in human communication, often conveying subtle messages that words alone cannot express. This article explores the intersection of body language and taboo, examining how gestures, postures, and expressions can convey taboo concepts or violate social norms.
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Taboo language and impoliteness

2018
This chapter focuses on the use of taboo language as—or, what is more often the case, as part of—a strategy to offend somebody or some group of people, that is, as part of impoliteness. Having briefly discussed the meanings of taboo language and impoliteness, the chapter commences with an examination of how taboo language figures in work on linguistic ...
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