Linguistic%20Taboo%20between%20Eastern-western%20Communications

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Linguistic Taboo between Eastern-western
Communications

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Contents

• Part1.Definition of Taboo linguistic taboo
• Part2.Differences of Linguistic Taboo between
  Eastern- western Communications
• 1.death , terrible disease physical
  disability
• 2.excretion of the body
• 3.discrimination
• 4.numbers

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Contents

• Part3. Ways of Avoiding Linguistic Taboo
• Using Euphemism
• Having a Good Knowledge of the Taboo Culture
• Part4.Conclusion

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Part1.Definition of Taboo Linguistic Taboo

• Taboo
• A taboo is a strong social prohibition
  (or ban) relating to any area of human activity
  or social custom that is sacred or forbidden
  based on moral judgment, religious beliefs and or
  scientific consensus.
• Linguistic Taboo
• Words and expressions related to social
  taboos.

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Part2.Differences of Linguistic Taboo between
Eastern-western communications

• 1.death terrible disease physical
  disability
• 2.excretion of the body
• 3.discrimination
• 4.numbers
• 5.names

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1.Death , Disease physical disability

• Death

In English In Chinese
go, depart, depart from this world, go to a better world, go the ways of all flesh, pass away etc. ??, ?????, ??, ??????, ??, ??, ??etc.
In both English and Chinese in English sleeping, sleep in Chinese correspond to ??,??,or??
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• Terrible Disease
• In English
• V.D veneral disease
• big C, cancer
• long disease, cancer
• terminal illness cancer
• Abbreviations are often used to alleviate the
  shocking effect
• SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes.

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• In Chinese
• ??? instead of ?
• ??? instead of ?.

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• physical disability
• In English
• ugly looks plain/ordinary
• fat heavily set or on the heavy side
• thinslender a crippled physically
• handicapped one is deaf hard of
  hearing
• In Chinese
• one is deaf???, ??????, ?????

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2.Concerning parts or excretion of the body

• Euphemisms for Lavatory
• In English go to lavatory
• go to the bathroom,
• do their business,
• answer natures
  call.
• In Chinese
• ?? is always avoided in public occasion
• go to lavatory??? or?????

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3.Discrimination

• Discrimination against woman

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• In English,
• A person of unknown sex
• he, or him rather than she or
  her
• A person who presides a meeting
• chairman
• cow (a) woman who has many
  children,
• mutton (a) dissolute woman,
• hen (a) woman who likes
  gossip,
• cat (a) malicious woman,
• crone (an) ugly withered old woman
  etc.
• Nowadays
• chairmanchairperson
• gentleman gentleperson
• human beings humankind or the human
  race

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• In Chinese
• The pejorative attitude toward women
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• ??????,
• ??????? ????,
• ???, etc
• Derogatory titles for women
• ??,
• ???,
• ???,
• ???,
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Racism Racism is the belief that certain
human races are inherently inferior to others and
racist language is that which shows a biased
attitude towards certain racial or ethic groups.
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• In English,
• Against black people
• white pure, clean, benevolent
• black evil, wrongdoing, and dirty,
  such as blackguard, blacklist,
  blackmarketc.
• nigger and boy a black adult man.
• In Chinese,
• ????incompetent doctors
• ??? Japanese. ???,
• ??? westerners.

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4. Numbers

• In western countries
• influential taboo numbers 13 Friday.
• Number thirteen being unlucky
• The last supper Judas, the person who betrayed
  Jesus, sat in the No.13 chair.
• Fridayan unlucky day Jesus Christ was put to
  death on the cross on Friday
• Friday is for many years the day of execution of
  criminals

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• In China
• influential taboo numbers 4
• 1.4 and the word ? (death) almost
  sound the same
• 2. Among old people, they think73 and 84
  are two key ages.
• If you are 73 or 84 years old, you will
  die before the King of hell invites you.
• So many old people avoid talking their
  exact ages.

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• In Chinese even numbers are lucky numbers
• ????????????
• In western countries odd numbers are lucky
  numbers
• The god delights in an odd number
• there is divinity in odd numbers, either in
  nativity, chance or death
• Good luck lies in odd numbers

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Part3. Ways of Avoiding Linguistic Taboo

• Using euphemism
• when a judge gives the criminal a
  sentence, he will directly say I hereby
  sentence you to five years in prison.
• But the criminal himself or his relatives
  will tell others Somebody is sent to the big
  house. for the purpose of saving face
• buttocks are arse, ass, prat,
  can, tail, cheeks, caboose, fundament

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• Having a good knowledge of the taboo culture
• Language and culture rely on each other and
  influence each other.
• Languages are formed and develop under certain
  cultural background.
• Linguistic taboo is a kind of social
• phenomenon.
• Its existence and development are
• restricted and influenced by specific
• cultural background
• If one wants to avoid violating taboos,
• he or she should have a good knowledge of
  what is or is not a taboo in this culture.

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Left refers to the West, right refers to China
1. Expressing personal views
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2.The view of Time
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3. Interpersonal relations
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4. Queued
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5. Self
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6. The noise in the restaurant
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7. Old age life style
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8. Leadership positions
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9.The way to solve things
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4.Conclusion

• Both Chinese and English linguistic taboos
  reflect peoples psychology for good will, for
  safety and fortune and pleasantness.
• The Chinese and English people restrict their
  words and deeds through taboos, trying to keep
  harmonious relationships between human and
  nature, or between people and society. Although
  the traditional linguistic taboos contain
  superstitions, ignorance and negative elements,
  the new taboos on racism bear positive features.
  They are a reflection of peoples pursuit of
  freedom and equality.

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