Tabubewältigung und Emotionen: Emotionsbasierte Implikaturen im Sprechakt der Andeutung
Overcoming Verbal Taboos: E-Implicatures in Speech Act of Hinting

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with linguistic coping with verbal taboos through hints and focuses on e-implicatures and their triggers. These e-implicatures are based on emotional knowledge and give an affective judgement about the tabooed state-of-affairs. Emotions which evoke e-implicatures include disgust and fear and their tertiary dyad shame. Both verbal (euphemisms and aposiopesis) and non-verbal triggers (prosodic, kinetic and proxemics) ensure felicity of implying.

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