کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
932884 1474741 2013 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The relevance of taboo language: An analysis of the indexical values of swearwords
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
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The relevance of taboo language: An analysis of the indexical values of swearwords
چکیده انگلیسی

In this paper I argue that approaching linguistic formulae from an indexical perspective can generate a set of research questions that have the potential to open up the study of (im)politeness phenomena so that it is possible to address the range of meanings a resource might generate in a given culture at a given moment in time. I show some of the regularities that come to light through a mapping of the indexical field of strong swearwords and argue that the evaluative behaviour evident in news reports can provide evidence of the potential meanings that uses of taboo language can generate in contemporary British culture. I also argue that approaching taboo language from a discursive pragmatic perspective, by interrogating the contextual assumptions that are needed to make sense of interpretations of specific uses of swearwords, the active assignment of indexical values to swearwords is brought into view.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Pragmatics - Volume 58, November 2013, Pages 152–169
نویسندگان
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