Sex, Death & Politics
Taboos in Language
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:1 (2021)
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[Pragmatics & Cognition, 28:1] 2021. v, 221 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 March 2022
Published online on 16 March 2022
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Table of Contents
- Sex, death & politics – taboos in language: IntroductionMelanie Keller, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer & Benjamin Weber | pp. 1–4
- Circumnavigating taboos: A functional and formal typologyMelanie Keller, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer & Kate Burridge | pp. 5–24
- Tongan honorifics and their underlying concepts of mana and tapu : A verbal taboo in its emic senseSvenja Völkel | pp. 25–56
- Obscene language and the renegotiation of gender roles in post-Soviet contextsCristiana Lucchetti | pp. 57–86
- The sound of taboo: Exploring a sound-meaning association in swear words of English and FrenchRobin Vallery & Maarten Lemmens | pp. 87–137
- When humour questions taboo: A typology of twisted euphemism usePhilipp Heidepeter & Ursula Reutner | pp. 138–166
- Borrowing and the historical LGBTQ lexicon: Profile of a pragmatically marked fieldNicholas Lo Vecchio | pp. 167–192
- Word norms and measures of linguistic reclamation for LGBTQ+ slursDaniel Edmondson | pp. 193–221
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