Nonverbal and combined communicative taboos in different cultures

Occupation: Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of The Russian Department of The Institute of Linguistics at The Russian State University for the Humanities
Affiliation: The Russian State University for the Humanities
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

Edition

Volume 77 Issue 4

Pages

5-14

Abstract

The paper addresses nonverbal and combined, or verbal-nonverbal, communicative taboos in different cultures. It focuses primarily on the examination of gesture taboos, which present prohibitions to people belonging to the given culture or social group to perform some body actions in particular communicative situations or domains and recommendations for people of another culture or social group to avoid performing these actions in the same situations and domains. The paper establishes some significant relations between gesture taboos and some parameters of communication such as type of culture, in which the taboo exists, the role that human body and some corporal objects play in the culture, features of the corporal object participating in the gesture production, etc. The systemic analysis and lexicographic representation of gesture taboos, the determination and fixation of contexts of their functioning in oral speech, and the description of situations and instruments, which might be used to violate taboos, provide the essential improvement of verbal and gestural explanatory dictionaries.

Keywords

taboo, verbal, nonverbal, combined, gesture, body, corporal object, culture, communication, dictionary.

Received

03.10.2018

Publication date

07.10.2018

Number of characters

951

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GOST	Kreydlin G. Nonverbal and combined communicative taboos in different cultures // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2018. – V. 77. – Issue 4 C. 5-14 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S241377150001109-2-1 (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S241377150001109-2
MLA	Kreydlin, Grigory "Nonverbal and combined communicative taboos in different cultures." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 77.4 (2018):5-14. DOI: 10.31857/S241377150001109-2
APA	Kreydlin G. (2018). Nonverbal and combined communicative taboos in different cultures. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 77(4), pp.5-14 DOI: 10.31857/S241377150001109-2

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