User:Authenticgranolapotato/Draft:Linguistic taboo

Word taboo is the restricted use of words due to social constraints

• Storch (2017)
  • Linguistic taboos manifest as performances as part of an individual's repertoire. Other aspects of repertoire include behaviour, strategies, techniques, choices (Luckmann 1992).
  • Paradoxically, voluntarily violating a taboo, such as by swearing, both acknowledges and disregards the socially regulating purpose of the tabooed utterance.
  • Linguistic taboos are one part of a bevy of means to "attaining personal and/or communal integrity". Other means include linguistic purism, political correctness, and "complex strategies of linguistic manipulation and concealment" (e.g. euphemism).

• Kiessling & Mous 2004
• Ljkung 2011
• Gomm (1975)
• Allan & Burridge 2006
  • "[Linguistic] taboos mostly refer to bodies and their effluvia, organs and acts of sex and excretion, disease and death, naming, touching and seeing persons, and preparing and consuming food."
  • "Taboos... address metaphysical and physical risks, and are therefore a means of attaining personal and/or communal integrity.