Others have noticed that taboo terms in spoken language present unusual morphological and syntactic behavior. In this paper we examine a number of predicates in American Sign Language that have recently been formed from what were, historically, taboo-terms, as well as one more recently coined mildly taboo-term, and we show that they, likewise, behave in unusual ways morphologically and syntacti...

Taboo words are defined and sanctioned by institutions of power (e.g., religion, media), and prohibitions are reiterated in child-rearing practices. Native speakers acquire folk knowledge of taboo words, but it lacks the complexity that psychological science requires for an understanding of swearing. Misperceptions persist in psychological science and in society at large about how frequently pe...

While both semantic and highly emotional (i.e., taboo) words can interfere with speech production, different theoretical mechanisms have been proposed to explain why interference occurs. Two experiments investigated these theoretical approaches by comparing the magnitude of these two types of interference and the stages at which they occur during picture naming. Participants named target pictur...

This article tackles the topic of taboo, highlights some most recurrent types taboos in language and literature sheds light on mechanism which enabled people to create euphemistic expressions diminish rigidity tabooistic words. Derived from Polynesian term taboo (ta designates sacred bu functions as a superlative degree), refers set absolute prohibitions that aim prevent negative effects magica...

Myth is an empirical response to the lives of ancient ancestors. "Chang'e Runs Moon" records story people flying last month, but it cannot explain relationship between this and life experience In pre Qin literature, author first deduced that age Chang'e's birth development was in late Neolithic period, then used "totem theory" demonstrate Houyi Chang'e were originally belonging different totem ...

the research attempted to discover the norms of translating taboo words and concepts after the islamic revolution in iran using toury’s (1995) framework for classification of norms. the corpus of the study composed of coelho’s novels between 1990 and 2005 and their persian translations which were prepared and analyzed manually to discover the norms. during both the selection of novels for trans...