Linguistic Word Taboos in Chinese Culture
Taboo is the prohibition of an act or the use of a word under pain of punishment. This paper is a combination of socio-psychological and linguistic study since homophonic word taboo is a socio-linguistic phenomenon in Chinese culture. The objective of this piece of research is to investigate Chinese...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2159/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2159/1/Linguistic_Word_Taboos_in_Chinese_Culture.pdf |