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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"taboo"”.
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Legislating the Taboo: Taboo Subcultures, Political Communication, and Public Policy
<p>This dissertation, titled "Legislating the Taboo: From Subculture to Public Policy," comprises three articles that collectively delve into the intersection of taboo subcultures, political communication, and public policy. While the fields of sociology and anthropology more thoroughly explore the …
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MEDIA EFFECTS ON DIVORCE ATTITUDES: Breaking the Taboo
The taboo associated with divorce has decreased among young adults. What was once a silent issue has become a more casual topic of discussion, with some discourse transcending onto social media sites. Research has shown that media and the act of divorce have a positive measurable relationship. …
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Taboo lexeme conditioning and obscenities in American English
<p>Taboo Lexeme Conditioning refers to the neurological, psychological, and sociological conditioning required during lexical acquisition for a native speaker to treat or experience certain lexemes as highly taboo. Taboo words differentiate both neurologically from non-emotional or non-taboo …
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Women drummers, forbidden drums: Obiní Batá negotiates a taboo
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words and their significance in Rwandan culture
This study investigates Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words and their meaning in Rwandan culture to enable the youth to improve their communication and the values of Rwandan culture. It explores whether the use of Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words is a good way to communicate with one another or is …
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Taboo topics in fiction: The case of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
… of the law to ban fiction that discusses taboo issues. The main aim of my thesis is to discredit Humbert as a reliable narrator and character by analysing the taboo issues of paedophilia, incest, rape and murder. This will be done in order to show how Nabokov proposes alternative morals by …
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Climate Change Relocation as an Adaptation Strategy: from Taboo to Opportunity
Relocation is often taboo among policy makers and planners due to its political, social, and ethical connotations, and although increasingly mentioned as one of the potential climate change adaptation strategies, it mostly adheres to rhetoric with limited discussion of its actual implementation. …
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"No topic is taboo": PETA's post-feminist pivot to human-centric imagery
In this thesis I argue that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) perpetuate exclusionary and hurtful images in their "Boyfriend Went Vegan and Knocked the Bottom Out of Me" (BWVAKTBOOM) campaign. This campaign focuses on a young couple whose amorous activities leave the young …
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"Literary Incest": Intertextuality and Writing the Last Taboo in the Novels of Iris Murdoch
… critical study. Her portrayal of the incest taboo is examined here in relation to incest as an abusive practice, which is the predominant image of the subject throughout her fiction. Examining the changes in scientific and cultural attitudes to incest in the post-war era, this thesis explores …
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A modern kori tabu működésének kommunikációs mechanizmusai = The communicational mechanisms of modern age taboo
Az értekezés témája egy olyan társadalmi jelenség, kommunikatív állapot vizsgálata, amelynek definiálása, értelmezése, működése ambivalens és nehezen érhető tetten a mindennapi kommunikációban, ugyanakkor társadalmi kódrendszerünknek szinte axiomatikus módon része: a modern kori tabuk jelenléte, …
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For fuck's sake: Investigating the affective norms and auditory perception of British English taboo words
Swear words are paradoxically ubiquitous and taboo. Whilst there is evidence to suggest taboo stimuli are preferentially processed, most findings relate to visually presented stimuli, despite swear words being more frequently heard than read, and arguably more threatening when presented auditorily. …
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We’ll have a gay ol’ time : transgressive sexuality and sexual taboo in adult television animation
… and manifestations of gay sexuality and sexual taboos and how these are articulated within the animated diegesis. The findings reveal the mutuality between the plasticity of animation, which lends itself to shaping physical representations of reality, and the complex social processes of …
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Silence Taboo and Midlife Women: A case study of the Midlife Women Rock Café in Waterford city
… highlights how menopause has remained “a taboo subject for polite conversation” (Beck et al., 2018) for too long and the consequences for women’s health (The Women’s Health Task Force,2020). The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) definition of menopause as a deficiency disease constructed …
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Performing Taboo: The Creation of an Aesthetic through the Exploration of Censorship in Theatre and the Challenges of Directing Killer Joe
This document explores the performance of taboo on the stage. The exploration is focused around the establishment of my personal aesthetic, which was developed through my studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Starting with my first trip to Broadway, my journey goes through the class work …
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Norms of subtitling taboo language and the role of censorship in Jordan : a case study of the Arabic subtitling of 'Friends'
… investigates thetranslation norms in subtitling taboo language (moral, religious and political) inJordanian Television and Institution B's Arabic subtitles of the American sitcomFriends. This study aims to compare the textual-linguistic and preliminary norms inJordanian Television and Institution …
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What not to swear: how do children learn bad words?
Children begin producing taboo words as early as ages one or two years old and produce them at a steady rate until the teenage years. However, little is known about how children acquire taboo words and whether the acquisition of taboo words is similar to the acquisition of other types of words. The …
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An Insight of Gendered and Taboo Language in Machine Translation & AI: Ethical and Linguistic Challenges in the English - Greek Translations of LGBTQ+ Discourse
Οι ραγδαίες εξελίξεις, καθώς και η αυξανόμενη ενσωμάτωση συστημάτων Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης (AI) και Μηχανικής Μετάφρασης (MT) στη μεταφραστική διαδικασία, έχουν αναδείξει σημαντικές ηθικές και γλωσσικές προκλήσεις, ιδίως σε περιπτώσεις που αφορούν περιθωριοποιημένες κοινωνικές ομάδες. Η παρούσα …
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Memoirs of a taboo : a novel. Volume 1 -- Women in pre- and post-Victorian India : the use of historical research in the writing of fiction. Volume 2
This practice-based creative writing doctorate supports the creation of a novel that is in part, historical fiction, based on research focusing on the discrepancies in the perceived status of women between the pre-Victorian and the postmillennial periods in India. The accompanying component of the …
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