30.1727, Confs: Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 30.1727, Confs: Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:23:34
From: Philipp Striedl [symposium2019 at lipp.uni-muenchen.de]
Subject: Sex Death Politics - Taboos in Language

 
Sex Death Politics - Taboos in Language 

Date: 29-Oct-2019 - 31-Oct-2019 
Location: Munich, Germany 
Contact: Philipp Striedl 
Contact Email: symposium2019 at lipp.uni-muenchen.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.symp.gwi.uni-muenchen.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

26th LIPP Symposium at LMU Munich

Every community has words and expressions they consider taboo, and these
include terms denoting humans, objects, processes, conditions or activities
deemed unmentionable. Taboo language is used both to avoid the controversial
in an effort to be polite and to deliberately evoke it as an insult or joke.
The current movement of political correctness deems certain terms for
marginalized populations outdated and taboo. Linguistic strategies like
euphemism are then employed to create appropriate alternatives. These taboo
terms remain in use, often to intentionally cause offense. Entire
communicative situations can also be restricted or marked as taboo, requiring
the use of specific language varieties, like mother-in-law language.
Investigations into the origins of taboos, their linguistic structure,
cultural context and effects on a language’s lexicon, structure and evolution
continue to fascinate researchers as old taboos are destroyed, new ones arise
and the process repeats.

The symposium will take place from October 29 to October 31, 2019, and will
offer a forum to present and discuss original research investigating taboos in
language.
 






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