Linguistic Taboo Revisited : : Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives /

Linguistic Taboo Revisited : : Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives / / ed. by Andrea Pizarro Pedraza.

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Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due to its social stigmatization and inherent linguistic complexity. Recently, though, there has been a renewed interest in revisiting the phenomenon, especially from cognitive frameworks. This volume is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Allan, Keith,
Bakhtiar, Mohsen,
Benczes, Réka,
Burridge, Kate,
Chamizo-Domínguez, Pedro J.,
Cock, Barbara De,
Crespo-Fernández, Eliecer,
Finkelstein, Shlomit Ritz,
Gathigia, Moses Gatambuki,
Ghassemzadeh, Habibollah,
Gómez, Miguel Casas,
Kuzio, Anna,
Mancera, Ana M. Cestero,
Moritz, Ivana,
Ndung’u, Ruth Wangeci,
Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng,
Pedraza, Andrea Pizarro,
Ruette, Tom,
Sharifian, Farzad,
Suñer, Ferran,
Zawrotna, Magdalena,
HerausgeberIn:
Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 332 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Table of contents
  • List of contributing Authors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Lexicon, discourse and cognition: terminological delimitations in the conceptualizations of linguistic taboo
  • Part I: Construal
  • 2. The axiological and communicative potential of homosexual-related metaphors
  • 3. Metonymy-based euphemisms in war-related speeches by George W. Bush and Barack Obama
  • 4. Ambiguity and vagueness as cognitive tools for euphemistic and politically correct speech
  • Part II: Cultural Conceptualization
  • 5. Old age revolution in Australian English: Rethinking a taboo concept
  • 6. Taboo subjects as insult intensifiers in Egyptian Arabic
  • 7. Emotion concepts in context: Figurative conceptualizations of hayâ ‘self-restraint’ in Persian
  • 8. A Cognitive Linguistics approach to menstruation as a taboo in Gĩkũyũ
  • 9. The socio-cognitive aspects of taboo in two cultures: A case study on Polish and British English
  • 10. The influence of conceptual differences on processing taboo metaphors in the foreign language
  • Part III: Cognitive Sociolinguistics
  • 11. Why do the Dutch swear with diseases?
  • 12. Calling things by their name: Exploring the social meanings in the preference for sexual (in)direct construals
  • 13. The perception of the expression of taboos: a sociolinguistic study
  • Part IV: Interdisciplinary Approaches
  • 14. Scrupulosity, sexual ruminations and cleaning in Obsessive – Compulsive Disorder
  • 15. Swearing as emotion acts
  • Index

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