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Example sentences for: taboo
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The often important factor of taboo seems not to operate here too conspicuously, although the superstition of the evil eye is often a potent consideration.
My own choice for a label is Taboo , which is incisively denotative.
They meet people who share their preoccupations, quirks, sense of humor, and sexual fantasies, people who like to argue about politics and religion (still taboo subjects in much of real-life America), who are experts in fascinating subjects, and who like to explain them.
The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation; that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc., is purely a connotative matter: denotatively (communicatively?)
In a book dealing with a subject of this sort one must be extremely careful to cleave to rigid definitions of the key terms ( euphemism, dysphemism, taboo , etc.) and not deviate from them.
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