Sprache und Tabu : Interpretationen zu französischen und italianischen Euphemismen /

Taboos are expressive indicators of the location of a society in its cultural history. Linguistic taboos in particular can be approached via euphemisms, which are observed and interpreted here in a comparison between French and Italian. Their raison d'être is explained from the perspective of...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Reutner, Ursula.
Format: eBook
Language:German
Published:Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2009.
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie ; 346. Heft.
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Summary:Taboos are expressive indicators of the location of a society in its cultural history. Linguistic taboos in particular can be approached via euphemisms, which are observed and interpreted here in a comparison between French and Italian. Their raison d'être is explained from the perspective of cultural and mental history, and from the perspective of the history of motifs they are anchored in fields ranging from the magical and religious via the ethical and aesthetic and the politically correct through to an "ethics without morality". In this, the sources, motives and functions of the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 459 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-441) and index.
ISBN:9783484971219
3484971215
9783111739199
3111739198
ISSN:0084-5396 ;
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