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Linguistic Taboo Revisited: Novel Insights from Cognitive Perspectives

By Andrea Pizarro Pedraza (Editor)
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By Andrea Pizarro Pedraza (Editor)
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Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due to its social stigmatization and inherent linguistic complexity. Recently, though, there has been a renewed interest in revisiting the phenomenon, especially from cognitive frameworks. This volume is the first collection of papers dealing with linguistic taboo from that perspective.

The volume gathers 15 chapters, which provide novel insights into a broad range of taboo phenomena (euphemism...

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