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Understanding Racial Slurs as Taboos by Oksana is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses racial and ethnic slurs as a new kind of socio-cultural taboo. It provides an introduction and overview of major theoretical works on studying language in social contexts and the pragmatic potential of taboos. The document then outlines various research methods used in the study, such as contrastive, componential, contextual and quantitative analysis. It examines the notion of taboo, both originally as a religious ban and more modern definitions as a cultural prohibition. Characteris
- Author
- Oksana
- Language
- EN