Linguistic Taboo Revisited

Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2019
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-068515-2 (ISBN)

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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 the first collection of papers dealing with linguistic taboo from that perspective. The volume gathers 15 chapters, which provide novel insights into a broad range of taboo phenomena (euphemism, dysphemism, swearing, political correctness, coprolalia, etc.) from the fields of sexuality, diseases, death, war, ageing or religion. With a special focus on lexical semantics, the authors in the volume work within Cognitive Linguistics frameworks such as conceptual metaphor and metonymy, cultural conceptualization or cognitive sociolinguistics, but also at the interface of pragmatics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, cognitive science or psychiatry. This volume provides theoretical reflections and case studies based on new methods and data from varied languages (English, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Persian, Gikũyũ and Egyptian Arabic). As such, it moves towards a new generation of linguistic taboo studies.

Andrea Pizarro Pedraza, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 61
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	627 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Cognitive linguistics • Language and Culture • Language and Society • Linguistic Taboo
ISBN-10	3-11-068515-9 / 3110685159
ISBN-13	978-3-11-068515-2 / 9783110685152
Zustand	Neuware