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Author Pedraza, Andrea Pizarro, author

Title Linguistic taboo revisited : novel insights from cognitive perspectives / Andrea Pizarro Pedraza
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages)
Series Cognitive linguistics research ; v. 61
Cognitive linguistics research ; 61.
Contents Introduction -- Lexicon, discourse and cognition: terminological delimitations in the conceptualizations of linguistic taboo -- Part I: Construal: The axiological and communicative potential of homosexual-related metaphors -- Metonymy-based euphemisms in war-related speeches by George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- Ambiguity and vagueness as cognitive tools for euphemistic and politically correct speech -- Part II: Cultural conceptualization: Old age revolution in Australian English: rethinking a taboo concept -- Taboo subjects as insult intensifiers in Egyptian Arabic -- Emotion concepts in context: figurative conceptualizations of hayâ 'self-restraint' in Persian -- A cognitive linguistics approach to menstruation as a taboo in Gĩkũyũ -- The socio-cognitive aspects of taboo in two cultures: a case study on Polish and British English -- The influence of conceptual differences on processing taboo metaphors in the foreign language -- Part III: Cognitive sociolinguistics -- Why do the Dutch swear with diseases? -- Calling things by their name: exploring the social meanings in the preference for sexual (in)direct construals -- The perception of the expression of taboos: a sociolingistic study -- Part IV: Interdisciplinary approaches -- Scrupulosity, sexual ruminations and cleaning in obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Swearing as emotion acts -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Taboo, Linguistic.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Taboo, Linguistic
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110582789
3110582783