Words That Smell like Father-in-Law: A Linguistic Description of the Datooga Avoidance Register
Words That Smell like Father-in-Law: A Linguistic Description of the Datooga Avoidance Register
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闻起来像岳父的词：Datooga 回避登记册的语言描述
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2016
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Alice Mitchell
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Alice Mitchell
翻译后摘要：本文介绍了一种避免注册的Datooga，坦桑尼亚的尼罗河语言。达图加妇女不仅避免使用这些姻亲的名字，而且避免使用词汇相关和发音相似的单词，以此表示对他们的长辈的尊重。近同音字的回避部分是由语音标准，但也由特质的元语言判断和社会习俗。为了避免禁忌词，女性已经发展出一套约定俗成的回避词汇，通过各种语言策略，包括辅音替换、借用和派生，来组装。回避词利用了广泛的语言资源，很好地说明了禁忌动机的语言变化的异质性结果。
Abstract:This article describes an avoidance register of Datooga, a Nilotic language of Tanzania. Datooga women show respect to their senior in-laws by avoiding not only these in-laws’ names but also lexically related and similar-sounding words. Near-homophone avoidance is partly determined by phonological criteria but also by idiosyncratic metalinguistic judgments and social convention. To avoid taboo words, women have developed a conventionalized avoidance vocabulary, assembled by means of various linguistic strategies, including consonant replacement, borrowing, and derivation. Avoidance words make use of a wide range of linguistic resources and illustrate well the heterogeneous results of taboo-motivated language change.