The thesis concerns on the phenomenon of death and it's tabooisation in the modern Czech society. Attitude, whether the death is taboo or not, divides not only the society but also the scientists of sociological field. In the first part it sets up basic arguments of both opposing groups by analyzing relevant scientific and general fiction literature. The other part of the thesis concerns on author's own research, with an aim to find out, what attitude to death and burial rituals is adopted by informants belonging to younger-middle aged generation living in the Czech Republic, primarily in Prague. The research uses qualitative methods, method of concerned and unconcerned observation on funeral ceremonies and semi-structured interviews with a group of informants. It focuses on recognition, whether the informants speak about death, go to cemeteries and practice rituals in relation to departed. Based on synthesis of gathered knowledge, the work sets up a new attitude to death-taboo as two different phenomena differing by relation to departed person.

<p>Although many communication scholars have explored how parents and children navigate difficult conversations about taboo topics, little to no research exists concerning pornography, specifically from the perspective of the child. To fill this research gap, the following qualitative study utilized a narrative framework and methodology to explore characteristics in parent-child conversations about pornography that illicit positive or negative perceptions from children about those conversations. 18 young adults (18-25 years old) participated in semi-structured interviews in which they shared stories about conversations they had with their parents about pornography. Five major themes surfaced from the thematic analysis of the data: (1) <i>open/closed relationship</i>, (2) <i>discussion-/lecture-based conversation structure</i>, (3) <i>specificity/ambiguity of conversation details</i>, (4) <i>affirmation/denial of curiosity</i>, and (5) <i>appropriate/inappropriate conversation context</i>. The findings have theoretical implications and contextual contributions for family communication scholars in further exploring the topic of pornography as well as practical insights for parents to reflect upon in seeking to strengthen their conversations about pornography with their children.</p>

This research experiment investigated whether the nuclear taboo was more influential on participants when considering the use of nuclear weapons, or if the participants were influenced more by cost-benefit analysis when deciding to use nuclear weapons. In this study, we presented a fake military scenario to respondents with a total of eight different versions that either did or did not include: genocide, high casualties, and nuclear weapons. Participants could then select whether they agreed, disagreed, or needed more information as there answer. Breaking respondents down into these three groups, the results show that for all three respondent groups the independent variable with the strongest effect was nuclear weapons. The weakest variable was high casualty rates, while genocide had the second strongest effect on the respondents' decision-making process. These findings indicate that respondents were affected by the nuclear taboo and were less likely to cost-benefit analyze when giving their answer to the military proposal.

This thesis examines four taboo words (Jesus, God, fuck, ass) used in the films Jaws, Shampoo, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The dominant method of research is semantic, drawing on language theories of I.A. Richards and Alfred Korzybski. Investigation led to these conclusions: (1) Symbolic use of taboo terms is accompanied by positive attitudes, while non-symbolic use, which is more frequent, is accompanied by negative or neutral attitudes. (2) Casual non-symbolic pronunciation is leading to separation of the symbol from its referent. (3) Through this methodology, it is possible to ascertain the speaker's intent and his attitude toward the audience, but not his attitude toward the referent.

O objetivo central desta pesquisa é apresentar uma tipologia dos tabus lingüísticos presentes em atlas lingüísticos brasileiros. O corpus do trabalho constitui-se das respostas apresentadas por sujeitos em seis atlas lingüísticos brasileiros, a saber, Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos (APFB), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe I (ALS I), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe II (ALS II), Esboço para um Atlas Lingüístico de Minas Gerais (EALMG), Atlas Lingüístico da Paraíba (ALPB) e o Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná (ALPR). Tomamos por base o Questionário Semântico-lexical (QSL) que consta dos \"Questionários 2001- Projeto Atlas Lingüístico do Brasil (ALiB)\", do qual destacamos apenas a questão referente ao campo semântico proposto. Foram selecionados seis campos semânticos para a realização da presente análise, sendo eles: fenômenos atmosféricos, corpo humano, religião e crenças, doenças, ciclos da vida e convívio e comportamento social. Com base em Guérios (1979) fizemos um estudo preliminar das manifestações do tabu lingüístico em língua portuguesa e apresentaremos os meios de substituição dos vocábulos tabus que se manifestaram nas variantes lingüísticas encontradas em atlas lingüísticos. Ao final deste estudo, elaboramos um glossário constante de fichas terminológicas devidamente catalogadas referente aos termos denominados como tabus lingüísticos das variantes lingüísticas elencadas. Por meio deste trabalho, pretendemos contribuir em certa medida para a análise deste rico material que são os atlas lingüísticos. / The main objective of this research is to present a typology of the linguistics taboos existent in the Brazilian Linguistic Atlases. The corpus of this paper is made up of the answers presented by the interviewers in six Brazilian Linguistics Atlases, that is to say, Atlas Prévio dos Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos (APFB), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe I (ALS I), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe II (ALS II), Esboço para um Atlas Lingüístico de Minas Gerais (EALMG), Atlas Lingüístico da Paraíba (ALPB) e o Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná (ALPR). It will be based on the questionnaire \"Questionário Semântico-lexical (QSL)\" that consists of \"Questionários 2001- Projeto Atlas Lingüístico do Brasil (ALiB)\", from which we will use only the questions referring to the semantics field worked on. We selected six semantic fields to work on in this analysis, which are: atmosphere phenomena, human body, religion and beliefs, diseases, cycles of life and living and social behavior. Based on Guérios (1979), we will make a preliminary study of the linguistic taboo manifestation in the Portuguese language and we will present the means of substitution of the linguistic variants found in the linguistic atlases. A glossary having terminological files about the linguistics taboo typology will be presented at the very end. Finally, this paper tends to contribute, to a small extent, to the richness of these linguistic taboos.

O objetivo central desta pesquisa é apresentar uma tipologia dos tabus lingüísticos presentes em atlas lingüísticos brasileiros. O corpus do trabalho constitui-se das respostas apresentadas por sujeitos em seis atlas lingüísticos brasileiros, a saber, Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos (APFB), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe I (ALS I), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe II (ALS II), Esboço para um Atlas Lingüístico de Minas Gerais (EALMG), Atlas Lingüístico da Paraíba (ALPB) e o Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná (ALPR). Tomamos por base o Questionário Semântico-lexical (QSL) que consta dos \"Questionários 2001- Projeto Atlas Lingüístico do Brasil (ALiB)\", do qual destacamos apenas a questão referente ao campo semântico proposto. Foram selecionados seis campos semânticos para a realização da presente análise, sendo eles: fenômenos atmosféricos, corpo humano, religião e crenças, doenças, ciclos da vida e convívio e comportamento social. Com base em Guérios (1979) fizemos um estudo preliminar das manifestações do tabu lingüístico em língua portuguesa e apresentaremos os meios de substituição dos vocábulos tabus que se manifestaram nas variantes lingüísticas encontradas em atlas lingüísticos. Ao final deste estudo, elaboramos um glossário constante de fichas terminológicas devidamente catalogadas referente aos termos denominados como tabus lingüísticos das variantes lingüísticas elencadas. Por meio deste trabalho, pretendemos contribuir em certa medida para a análise deste rico material que são os atlas lingüísticos. / The main objective of this research is to present a typology of the linguistics taboos existent in the Brazilian Linguistic Atlases. The corpus of this paper is made up of the answers presented by the interviewers in six Brazilian Linguistics Atlases, that is to say, Atlas Prévio dos Atlas Prévio dos Falares Baianos (APFB), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe I (ALS I), Atlas Lingüístico de Sergipe II (ALS II), Esboço para um Atlas Lingüístico de Minas Gerais (EALMG), Atlas Lingüístico da Paraíba (ALPB) e o Atlas Lingüístico do Paraná (ALPR). It will be based on the questionnaire \"Questionário Semântico-lexical (QSL)\" that consists of \"Questionários 2001- Projeto Atlas Lingüístico do Brasil (ALiB)\", from which we will use only the questions referring to the semantics field worked on. We selected six semantic fields to work on in this analysis, which are: atmosphere phenomena, human body, religion and beliefs, diseases, cycles of life and living and social behavior. Based on Guérios (1979), we will make a preliminary study of the linguistic taboo manifestation in the Portuguese language and we will present the means of substitution of the linguistic variants found in the linguistic atlases. A glossary having terminological files about the linguistics taboo typology will be presented at the very end. Finally, this paper tends to contribute, to a small extent, to the richness of these linguistic taboos.

Thesis is focused on motifs of taboo behavior in Czech prosaic folklore. The objective of this work was to depict how the motifs participate in folktales and legends, compare these motifs, describe their change in time and space and possible overlaps into to social reality. In the thesis is used as a method the textological analysis of narrative motifs in the primary sources of folklore narratives from the mid 19th century to the present. In summary are presented possible function of taboo in folklore narratives, relation of folklore and social reality based on taboo and variations in understanting a taboo phenomen in time.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Wilson Lopes do Amaral.pdf: 1148121 bytes, checksum: 01ff5608a4d61c4edef58f5ba96fd56f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work is part of the research line Text and Discourse on Oral and Written Procedures , the Postgraduate Program in Portuguese at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. It has the overall objective to analyze the rhetorical relations between speaker and audience in communicative situations involving the use or not of linguistic taboos and discursive taboos. To make this possible, we reflect about the nature of myth, totem, the theological and religious discourse in the constitution of linguistic and discursive taboos. We distinguish forbidden word of prohibited speech. Supported by rhetorical concepts, we analyze a speech given in 2010 by Pastor Claudio Duarte, a member of the Baptist Church Mount Horeb, located at Rio de Janeiro, in an event called IV School Leaders Victoria Association in Christ, in order to evidence present taboos in speeches that are part of the Christian religion. We analyzed in the text, the constitution of the ethos, the use of logos for the maintenance of the forbidden and the move of pathos in view of taboos. We conclude that the rhetorical strategy used by the pastor, focuses on (addresses, evokes) forbidden topics, aimed at the maintenance and transmission of ideas and ideals conservatives disguised as modernity. Keeps secular prohibitions through the relationship between those who say in what context says and for what kind of auditory prepares the speech / Esta dissertação, inserida na linha de pesquisa Texto e Discurso nas Modalidades Oral e Escrita , do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Língua Portuguesa da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, tem por objetivo geral analisar as relações retóricas entre orador e auditório em situações comunicativas que implicam o uso ou não de tabus linguísticos e tabus discursivos. Para que isso fosse possível, refletimos sobre a natureza do mito, do totem, do discurso teológico e religioso, na constituição de tabus linguísticos e discursivos. Distinguimos palavra proibida de discurso proibido. Amparados pelos conceitos retóricos, analisamos um discurso proferido em 2010 pelo pastor Cláudio Duarte, membro da Igreja Batista Monte Horebe, sediada no Rio de Janeiro, em um evento denominado IV Escola de Líderes Associação Vitória em Cristo, a fim de evidenciar tabus presentes nos discursos que fazem parte da religião cristã. Analisamos, no texto, a constituição do ethos, a utilização do logos para a manutenção do proibido e o mover do pathos ante os tabus. Concluímos que a estratégia retórica, utilizada pelo pastor, enfoca (aborda, evoca) temas proibidos, visa à manutenção e à transmissão de ideias e ideais conservadores travestidos de modernidade. Mantém proibições seculares por intermédio da relação entre quem diz, em qual contexto diz e para qual auditório elabora o dizer

The aim of this postgraduate dissertation, entitled Sexual abuse, its depiction in literature for child and young adults and its potential to use it in school, is to introduce a reader to general informations about sexual abuse of children, to draw up general principles used in fiction literature and try to offer a concrete oportunity to work with these texts in literature classes. The thesis should point to importance and seriousness of these problems, make an appeal to timely prevention and familiarization of children/students with this problem and provide concrete materials and idea show to work with this topic. The theoretical part of the work deals generally with the taboo, its forms, historical shifts and its present form. Furthermore the issue of sexual abuse in terms of professional literature is discussed, which will help us in the practical work with the understanding and assessment of the fictional literature. The practical part deals with the analysis of particular books of fiction, specifically a book by Ann Dee Ellis This is what I did…and a book by Bryan Talbot The Tale of One Bad Rat and their didactic potential at literary education classes. KEYWORDS child, sexual abuse, taboo, literature, didactic analysis, rapists, victims

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-149). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / vi, 149 leaves, bound ill. (some col.), col. map 29 cm