Hong Kong Cantonese-Speakers' Attitudes Towards Tabooed Words Nowadays

by Clara S. W. Wong

Tabooed language for speakers from around the world is generally understood to refer to those lexical items and expressions considered to be unlucky, indecent, immoral, obscene, etc. because saying them would violate certain sociocultural norms; but, it is for this very reason that some speakers do indeed utter them. As for the Cantonese language, this book has investigated a set of 14 linguistic terms that its speakers have also tabooed as being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6200316910
• ISBN13: 9786200316912
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"