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Verbal Transformations of “Stabilized” Taboo and Neutral Words
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1974To test the “arousal” hypothesis that physiological and/or psychological “arousal” maintains the perception of an auditory stimulus, a number of taboo and neutral words were repeated orally for 14 male and 14 female college students. Neutral words gave rise to more verbal transformation than taboo words.
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Spanish in Context, 2006
This paper reports on a corpus-based comparison of the use of taboo words amongst middle/upper class teenage girls in London and Madrid. Two corpora of spontaneous conversation were used for the comparison; these showed that the most frequent words used by both groups had sexual reference, followed by words to do with bodily functions.
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This paper reports on a corpus-based comparison of the use of taboo words amongst middle/upper class teenage girls in London and Madrid. Two corpora of spontaneous conversation were used for the comparison; these showed that the most frequent words used by both groups had sexual reference, followed by words to do with bodily functions.
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2006
Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life.
Allan, Keith, Burridge, Kate
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Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life.
Allan, Keith, Burridge, Kate
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Abstract This chapter addresses speakers’ use of emotionally hurtful words and their victims’ emotional responses to hurtful words in American English. Hurtful words are defined here as negatively valenced or bad words used to express one’s feelings and convey those feelings to others.
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[The effect of taboo word on language processing].
Psychiatria Hungarica : A Magyar Pszichiatriai Tarsasag tudomanyos folyoirata, 2011Knowledge about how we process taboo words brings us closer to the and emotional processes, and broadens the interpretative framework in psychiatry and psychotherapy. In this study the lexical decision paradigm was used. Subjects were presented neutral words, taboo words and pseudowords in a random order, and they had to indicate whether the presented ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language
2018The 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. What is in fact tabooed is the use of those words and language in certain contexts; in short, the taboo applies to instances of language behaviour.
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2014
Language transmits the culture. We still carry on using some words whose origins are hidden in the history. In this study, the words said as a euphemism are noted. The expressions which are used in Turkish vocabulary are defined.
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Language transmits the culture. We still carry on using some words whose origins are hidden in the history. In this study, the words said as a euphemism are noted. The expressions which are used in Turkish vocabulary are defined.
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Abstract In this chapter, it is investigated to what extent Dutch influenced other languages’ maledicticons, i.e., taboo-language usage such as swearwords, insults, euphemisms and dysphemisms, impolite language, etc. (collectively called maledicta). The focus here is how borrowing of especially lexical
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A Analysis of Taiwan's Taboo Word and Culture
Studies of Korean & Chinese Humanities, 2021Yichi Lee, Yongsu Han
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