Linguistic taboo revisited novel insights from cognitive perspectives / Andrea Pizarro Pedraza.
| Other author | Pedraza, Andrea Pizarro. |
| Other author | Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association. Conference 2016 : Alcalá de Henares, Spain) |
| Other author | International Cognitive Linguistics 2015 : Newcastle upon Tyne, England) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018] |
| Description | xiii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cognitive linguistics research, 1861-4132 ; volume 61 Cognitive linguistics research ; volume 61. 1861-4132 |
| Contents | Foreword / Keith Allan -- Introduction / Andrea Pizarro Pedraza -- Lexicon, discourse and cognition : terminological delimitations in the conceptualizations of linguistic taboo / Miguel Casas Gómez -- Construal -- The axiological and communicative potential of homosexual-related metaphors / Eliecer Crespo-Fernández -- Metonymy-based euphemisms in war-related speeches by George W. Bush and Barack Obama / Ivana Moritz -- Ambiguity and vagueness as cognitive tools for euphemistic and politically correct speech / Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez -- Cultural conceptualization -- Old age revolution in Australian English : rethinking a taboo concept / Réka Benczes, Kate Burridge, Keith Allan, Farzad Sharifian -- Taboo subjects as insult intensifiers in Egyptian Arabic / Magdalena Zawrotna -- Emotion concepts in context : figurative conceptualizations of hayâ 'self-restraint' in Persian / Mohsen Bakhtiar -- A cognitive linguistics approach to menstruation as a taboo in Gikuyu / Moses Gatambuki Gathigia, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo and Ruth Wangeci Ndung'u -- The socio-cognitive aspects of taboo in two cultures : a case study on Polish and British English / Anna Kuzio -- The influence of conceptual differences on processing taboo metaphors in the foreign language / Barbara De Cock and Ferran Suner -- Cognitive sociolinguistics -- Why do the Dutch swear with d iseases? / Tom Ruette -- Calling things by their name : exploring the social meanings in the preference for sexual (in)direct construals / Andrea Pizarro Pedraza -- The perception of the expression of taboos : a sociolinguistic study / Ana M. Cestero Mancera -- Interdisciplinary approaches -- Scrupulosity, sexual ruminations and cleaning in obsessive : compulsive disorder / Habibollah Ghassemzadeh -- Swearing as emotion acts / Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein -- Index. |
| General note | "This book derives from papers delivered at workshops organized by Andrea Pizarro Pedraza which took place in two conferences: the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference held in July 2015 at Northumbria University, England and the 10th AELCO International Conference held in October 2016 at the University of Alcalá, Spain"--Page vi. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018934500 |
| ISBN | 9783110580310 (hd.bd.) |
| ISBN | 9783110685152 (pbk) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (ePub) |
| Standard identifier# | 9783110580310 |
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