Reseña de Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea (ed.) (2018): Linguistics Taboo Revisited: Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives

García-Cervigón, Alberto Hernando

doi:10.25267/pragmalinguistica.2020.i28.18

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“…Language reflects social values of its users (Smith 2010;Kennedy et al 2021). Taboos have long occupied a peripheral place in linguistic research due to their inherent linguistic complexity (Pedraza 2018). Recently, however, there has been increasing interest in revisiting this issue, especially from a cognitive and sociolinguistic perspective.…”

Section: Linguistic Tabooization and Euphemizationmentioning

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Taboo zoonyms: What do 'bear', 'lynx' and 'wolf' have in common?

Wacewicz-Chorosz

2024

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The aim of this paper is to trace the etymologies of the English words bear, lynx and wolf and their Polish equivalents niedźwiedź, ryś and wilk within the context of Indo-European languages in terms of the mechanisms for creating euphemisms to denote animals subject to the phenomenon of linguistic tabooization. The methodology comprises the following stages: selection of cognates (to determine the scope of attestation); examination of the semantic features of the selected vocabulary; and an attempt to outline the problem of the functional features of euphemisms to denote tabooed vocabulary. The results of these considerations can contribute to concretising our ideas about the linguistic constitution of the surrounding world by past language users and linguistic interrelationships, as well as help reveal the peculiarities of euphemistic vocabulary conditioned by the functioning of linguistic taboos.

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Section: Linguistic Tabooization and Euphemizationmentioning

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Taboo zoonyms: What do 'bear', 'lynx' and 'wolf' have in common?

Wacewicz-Chorosz

2024

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“…With this in mind, I consider that swearing and swear words encompass other terms within the semantic field of taboo, such as "expletive" (De Klerk 1991;Wajnryb 2005), "linguistic taboo" (Guérios 1979;Calvo Shadid 2011;Pizarro Pedraza 2018;Moura 2020), "offensive language" (Trupej 2019;Ávila-Cabrera 2023), "taboo language" (Allan and Burridge 2006;Ávila-Cabrera 2015a;Khoshsaligheh et al 2018;Alsharhan 2020;Pizarro Pedraza et al 2024), "taboo word" (De Klerk 1992;Dewaele 2004;Jay 2009;Burridge 2014), among others. Despite their specific meanings in analytical contexts, these terms share features that have allowed me to categorize them under the headings swearing and swear words: the acceptability of these words may vary depending on factors such as the viewer's culture, gender, age, social class, and swearing habits.…”

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The Subtitling of Swearing: A Pilot Reception Study

Moura

2024

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Reception studies in audiovisual translation seek to explore how translation choices affect the audience’s comprehension, emotional engagement, enjoyment, and overall viewing experience of audiovisual materials. This study focuses on the subtitling product and analyzes the acceptability of swear words translated through different stimuli: subtitles with softened, maintained, and intensified swearing, along with standard Netflix subtitles (control). Employing a multi-method approach, the study collected data through a survey, using questionnaires with a Likert scale and interviews, following the user-centered translation model to understand how participants receive and perceive swear words in subtitling. The results indicate that the control group had the highest acceptability of the participants, while the group with softened swear words presented the lowest acceptability rate. The analysis shows that participants across all groups reported that discomfort does not arise from reading the swear word in the subtitle but from perceiving a deliberate change in its offensive load—usually softened. The findings demonstrate that this change can lead to a breach of the contract of illusion in subtitling, as participants are exposed to the original dialogue and the translated subtitle simultaneously. In conclusion, when perceived, the change in the offensive load can redirect the viewer’s focus from the video to the subtitles, negatively affecting the enjoyment of the audiovisual experience.

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“…Una de las disciplinas que más se ha interesado por el tabú en estos últimos años es la sociolingüística, tanto la de corte más variacionista (en las líneas de López Morales 1990, y de Cestero Mancera 2015, ver apartado 3) como la que incorpora las teorías y métodos cognitivos (Pizarro Pedraza 2013, 2018a. Esto no es de extrañar si tenemos en cuenta algunas características del fenómeno, destacadas ya desde los trabajos iniciales sobre el tabú: su naturaleza social y su variabilidad (ver apartado 2).…”

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Pocas palabras bastan: la variación semántica del tabú como índice de práctica estilística

Pizarro Pedraza

2024

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Las características singulares del tabú desde el punto de vista semántico y sociolingüístico lo convierten en una herramienta potentísima de construcción de significado social. Aunque los estudios de la sociolingüística variacionista hispánica han aumentado en los últimos años, son escasas las interpretaciones de la variación del tabú como recurso estilístico de los hablantes para situarse en el espacio social. No obstante, en lo que se refiere al tabú como variable semántica, pocas palabras les bastan a los hablantes para construir significados sociales: a través de los resultados de dos modelos estadísticos sobre un mismo corpus de conceptos sexuales y del análisis cualitativo de ejemplos, se explicará el potencial de estos conceptos para la práctica estilística. La posición tomada con respecto al tabú sirve de índice de categorías sociales locales relacionadas con el pudor y sus significados ideológicos.

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Reseña de Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea (ed.) (2018): Linguistics Taboo Revisited: Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives

Cited by 3 publications

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Taboo zoonyms: What do 'bear', 'lynx' and 'wolf' have in common?

Taboo zoonyms: What do 'bear', 'lynx' and 'wolf' have in common?

The Subtitling of Swearing: A Pilot Reception Study

Pocas palabras bastan: la variación semántica del tabú como índice de práctica estilística

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