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Publication details [#29042]

Al-Khatib, Mahmoud A. 1995. A sociolinguistic view of linguistic taboo in Jordanian Arabic. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16 (6) : 443–457.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | context | education | sociolinguistics | taboo

Language as a subject

Arabic, Jordanian

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores the phenomenon of linguistic taboo in terms of its relationship with the social context of use and the socio-cultural factors of education, age, setting and topic that affect it.