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Emotion, discourse, and linguistic diversity: Emotions in grammar and discourse in northern Australia ...
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4 - Pandemic Crisis: How Digitised Classroom Affect Second Language Acquisition among LGBT Students and Students of Non-Icelandic Origin ...
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Keynote 3: M. Ponsonnet: Emotion, discourse, and linguistic diversity: Emotions in grammar and discourse in northern Australia ...
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The expression of emotions and their cultural ties to Pakistani, Somali and Yemeni patients' views of the world in cross-cultural therapy ...
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"Personas in discourse": defending cinematic Identities from online communication of hate ...
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Gender-inclusive language among Italian non-binary individuals: a survey ...
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Naming experiences in the current feminist movement: a sociopragmatic study of English gendered neologisms ...
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The sound of taboo: investigating a sound-symbolic association in taboo words of English and French ...
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"Taboo words, also known as swear words, curse words, profanities, etc., are words socially forbidden because they are considered as extremely impolite and/or profoundly insulting. These include rude words – known as gros mots (literally “big/rude words”) in French – related to taboo domains (religion, sexuality, body waste) on the one hand, and bigoted words known as slurs on the other hand – those two subcategories overlap with slurs related to sexuality, e.g. faggot or whore. Compared to the rest of the English or French lexicon, taboo words tend to contain significantly more of the least sonorant consonants, i.e. /p/, /t/, /k/, /tʃ/, /f/, /s/, /ʃ/, /θ/, /h/, /b/, /d/, /g/ or /dʒ/ (p<0.01). How can we explain this observation? Sound symbolism, the notion that sounds may have a meaning (Haiman 2018: 118-119) gives us a possible explanation. There may be an unconscious form-meaning association in the mind of speakers (Bergen 2016: 52-63) between non-sonorant consonants on the one hand, and some common ...
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Cognitive Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Social Psychology; Sociolinguistics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48448/6bxr-fp85 https://underline.io/lecture/36165-the-sound-of-taboo-investigating-a-sound-symbolic-association-in-taboo-words-of-english-and-french
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Anger in Social movements: Evaluative analysis of conceptual metaphors ...
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A Small-Scale Study: Patterns of Language Choice in Families in Multilingual Kazakhstan ...
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Impression management tactics in Hungarian political debate shows ...
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3 - Reborn dolls, dementia, disability, and grief: the linguistic construction of synthetic parenting as non-pharmacological therapy ...
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Voicing labouring bodies: women's narratives and gender violence ...
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Organising in the Industry 4.0: the rise of the "Empathetic Union" ...
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2 - The use of emotions in online hate speech: between discursive strategy and manipulation ...
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Keynote 2: J. Littlemore: Metaphor as a lens through which to examine deep, personal, emotional experiences ...
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What emojis are ironic markers? A survey on Chinese teenagers in WeChat app ...
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Metaphorical representation of the pandemics in the German press ...
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