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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Main Author: Andrew, Yau-hau Tse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2159/1/Linguistic_Word_Taboos_in_Chinese_Culture.pdf
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/2159/
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