Taboo

of language that stereotypically belongs to women language and men language. The features include hedges, intensifiers, oh my god/like, taboo words, gonna, and guys/man. Lexical hedges and intensifiers are suggested by Lakoff as women linguistic features (Holmes, 2001, p. 286), and phrases oh my god/like strongly indicates femininity (Fiscus, 2011, p. 39). Taboo language is considered as men’s language as it is not socially acceptable since women are expected to behave. Gonna is one of informal…

The voices are screaming, but there are no bodies that are manifested to produce it. One minute happiness flows the body; then, like a light switch, anger charges my thoughts. All emotions and state of mind vanish as water does once the sun comes out. Everything is a puzzle that cannot be pieced together. With one simple diagnostic, the voices are labeled schizophrenia and the changes of mood is bipolar disorder. The disorders, the names, the treatment, the “solutions”, seem to never. It is not…

the avoidance of taboos are very important during campaigning for an important position in office. During the 2008 United States Presidential elections, each candidate that was running had taboos that they would try to avoid, but it was in the interest of the other candidates to bring up those issues. As a culture that reveres the truth, Americans would take into account the taboos used by the candidates as a way to delegitimize the candidate involved with the taboo. The use of taboos was not…

adds clout to the title sweetest taboo as well. Sadè continues with a deeper feelings of affection stating, “ If I tell you how I feel. Will you keep bringing out the best in me? You give me, you give me the sweetest taboo. You give me, you’re giving me the sweetest taboo. Too good for me. There’s a quiet storm, and it never felt like this before. There’s a quiet storm that is you. There’s a quiet storm and it never felt this hot before. Giving me something that’s taboo. Sometimes I think…

Less explicitly, Beard (2008) also underscores advertising effectiveness. However, Beard (2008) judges effectiveness based on consumer response, analyzing what products and advertising characteristics offend consumers. Like Binet and Field (2009), Beard derives categories and variables from a database: the Advertising Standards Authority of New Zealand’s index of consumer complaints regarding advertising. Beard (2008) concludes that offensive themes are more offensive than products, services, or…

flesh of another human is completely taboo. Despite the controversial nature of the topic, isolated occurrences of cannibalism have been confirmed in parts of the world. Though one of the last taboos of our society, fascination with the motives behind the act of anthropophagy arises from this anomaly in human behavior. Cannibalism exists in two forms: exocannibalism, the eating of human flesh outside one’s social…

of our young. This instinct to take care of our young carried over to others, like the elderly. As we began valuing every life: we began to marvel at the fact that we could ever take another human life. Indeed, we made it a great taboo. However, even though it was a taboo; it did not stop us from killing one…

a cultural standpoint. This is exemplified in Mary Douglas’ concept of pollution powers. Throughout history only certain social classes were allowed to touch excrement, this made the association of dirt to be paired with certain social stigmas and taboos, which stipulate how one must police their bodies from pollution. Douglas’ theory is at the fore of debunking myths on sexuality and gender and how they regulate sexuality and the body. Pollution powers are a concept that can be linked to the…

Wootton walked around Nevahland belligerently because Chandler was wearing intestines around his neck. This wasn't very taboo to the people around him, but Wootton thought this was worthy of chastisement. The blood dripping from Chandler’s mouth was opaque. At first, Chandler was disinclined to rip Sean’s stomach to get to his entrails. After his peers pressured him for quite a while, he gave in. When he had finished, the ground surrounding him looked as if a bunch of detritus had been scattered…

Drugs have always been seen as a taboo subject, but I do not count many things as taboo to talk about. I have always been interested in learning or talking about “taboo” topics such as feminism, sexism, abortion, racism, sex, religion, politics, and, of course, drugs. I love learning about other people’s perspectives on these issues. Not only does it make for good conversation, but it enhances my knowledge in ways I could not have done myself. Because of this, I wanted to choose a liberal…