Taboo semantics

Vogel, Carl

doi:10.1109/coginfocom.2014.7020450

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“…The result of this study is line with the taboo's category from Vogel (2014). Taboo emerges from the extremities of human value systems and properly speaking taboo includes: 1) sacred or unclean character of persons/things; 2) the kind of prohibition which arises from this character; and 3) the sanctity (or uncleanliness) which results from a violation of the prohibition (Vogel, 2014).…”

Section: Taboo Language Relating To Certain Situationssupporting

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Verbal Taboos in Acehnese Language: Meaning, Function, and Euphemism

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Pujiono

Iqbal

2023

Rand. Inter. Edu. Ling. Sci. J.

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This research is aimed to list verbal taboo of Acehnese language and to explain reasons behind then to create a model of language revitalization as well as to propose the pattern of euphemism in maintaining norms and values to minimize language conflict. The research is qualitative description in which the data was taken by recording technique, note-taking technique on the conversations of residents at the location in Banda Aceh. The findings of the research are taboo words in Acehnese language, they are: 1) Bodies and their effluvia (toh èk replaced to jak u likôt, lagèe èk leubô should be unsaid/unspoken); 2) The organs and acts of sex, micturition and defecation (boh krèh, aneuk tét should be unsaid/unspoken, mik/mom replaced gunong); 3) Diseases, death and killing including hunting and fishing (maté replaced to meuninggai, ka geutinggai geutanyoe, ka geuwoe bak Allah, lé that eungkôt replaced to na rezeki uroe nyoe, cacar replaced to sakét mangat) ; 4) Naming, addressing, touching and viewing persons and sacred beings, objects and places (du replaced to ayah/abu/abi/bapak, ma relapced to mak/umi/mami/bunda, kah replaced to kak/cupo/da, nan replaced to aduen/abang/bang, macut/makcék, mawa, deumi Allah should be unsaid/unspoken, aneuk haramjadah should be unsaid/unspoken, buya replaced to teungku waki, tikôh replaced to nyak ti/po ti, rimueng replaced to nèk/yah nek/rumpoe tempat, gajah replaced teungku rayek); and 5) Food gathering, preparation and consumption (it is not found). This study implies to create the euphemism formulas in avoiding language conflict, then the study of taboo is not seen just only from linguistical aspect but also from culture and human’s habit by discussing taboos from sociolinguistic as well as pragmasemantic.

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Section: Taboo Language Relating To Certain Situationssupporting

confidence: 76%

Verbal Taboos in Acehnese Language: Meaning, Function, and Euphemism

Nasution

Pujiono

Iqbal

2023

Rand. Inter. Edu. Ling. Sci. J.

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“…This paper has been an attempt to answer the question of how the transition of words (nouns, adverbs) to the grammatical category of intensifiers affects their meaning and degree of taboo. Vogel's (2014) 'extremities in human value system': God, the devil, death and many other concepts are strong enough to mark the words used to name them with a value (emotional ambivalence) beyond their mere meaning. This emotional colour equips them with specific pragmatic capacities that seem to remain active in these words even when the original meaning has been completely eroded.…”

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Folia Orientalia

Zawrotna¹

2019

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This article is a description and comparison of Polish and Arabic taboo-based intensifiers in terms of both the semantic domains from which they are derived and their level of desemanticization. For this objective, four domains were selected: (1) death, (2) religion, God, and demons, (3) sexuality, and (4) family. Within those domains an array of linguistic forms were analysed with the aim of examining to what extent they retained traces of the original meaning. Another question to elucidate is whether the transition from one category to another in the process of semantically-driven grammaticalization is accompanied by the loss of the taboo element of these lexemes.

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Taking Offence

Vogel

2020

2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom)

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Between speakers and addressees, the perception of offensiveness in natural language may diverge distinctly to the potential for divergence of understanding of lexical content. Historically, the perception of offensiveness would be treated as a matter of pragmatics rather than semantics. Here, the semantic nature of offence, in particular, taking offence, even where none was intended, is addressed. A formal account is provided, with semantic composition rules corresponding to interpreter personality types.

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Taboo semantics

Abstract: Abstract-Phenomena related to linguistic taboos are discussed and analyzed within a framework for truth-conditional semantics for natural language.

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Verbal Taboos in Acehnese Language: Meaning, Function, and Euphemism

Verbal Taboos in Acehnese Language: Meaning, Function, and Euphemism

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