ZU WELCHEM TABU SCHWEIGEN SIE GERADE IM MEHRSPRACHIGEN KLASSENZIMMER?
ABOUT WHICH TABO ARE YOU SILENT IN THE MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOM?

Author(s): Oxana Chira
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pedagogy
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: taboo; euphemism; culture; social taboo; verbal taboo; traditions; multilingualism;
Summary/Abstract: The traditional taboos of mankind are the taboos of the sacred and of the impure. The issues of language impoliteness, verbal aggression and taboo violence have only recently come under a more intensive scientific scrutiny. The paper offers some possibilities for successfully avoiding of taboo words, wherefore it can also be a contribution for a better understanding of taboos in our own, as well as in other cultures and languages. However, the existence of differences between the languages was not sufficient to predict target-deviant behaviour. The question whether language dominance determines cross-linguistic influence has been discussed controversially in studies on simultaneously bilingual students. Flouting taboos entails direct or indirect, social or cultural sanctions.

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