User:Authenticgranolapotato
About me
[edit]Hi! I am an undergraduate in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, majoring in Linguistics.
I am a Python hobbyist, and am currently maintaining a few Discord bots for a few games I play. I'm currently picking up Java, with a focus on the ArtiSynth project.
I was a contributor in the school project HG2052 Language, Technology and the Internet, to expand on a linguistics-related page as an introduction to how wikis work. The page our team worked on was word taboo.
Let's get along!
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[edit]Project
[edit]This project is part of SUP:NTU HG252 Language, Technology and the Internet.
| Members | Page | Evaluation deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Debbie, Dylan, Wilson (me) | Word taboo | 12 April |
Draft can be found here.
Selected page: Word taboo
A field in anthropological/sociolinguistics where cultural norms impose restrictions on utterances in language.
Also known as linguistic taboo, taboo language.
Possible enhancements for page
- Improve page summary.
- Problematic page title:
- Taboo does not just apply just for words. It can involve other aspects such as register.
- Could nominate a page rename to taboo language or linguistic taboo.
- But linguistic taboo redirects to naming taboo, but is not the same thing. What to do?
- Supported by existing comments on the talkpage.
- Missing exposition sections:
- Theory (causes, consequences).
- Examples.
- Statistics on frequency/distribution among languages.
- Quality of existing content:
- Unclear/missing citations.
- Lack of association to related topics: naming taboo, the sociological phenomenon of taboo etc.
Sources
- Main texts:
- Allan & Burridge (2006). Forbidden words. Cambridge University Press. (link)
- Storch (2017) Typology of secret languages and linguistic taboos. In The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology.
- Also sources ibid. (many).
- Existing sources on the page.
Feedback
- Re: renaming - refer to academic consensus. Drop a note on the related pages. Use "What links here" tool to find redirects and update.
- Good to have examples from other languages. Can use Malay (referring to hunting game).