Decensy taboos in the Cearense speech: a reflection based on non-clinical neurolinguistics and variationist sociolinguistics

• Autor(a) principal: Lavor, Cassio Murilio Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Confluência
• Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/529
• topic: Tabu; Neurolinguística; Sociolinguística; Eufemização; Disfemização; Taboo; neurolinguistics; sociolinguistics; euphemization; dysphemization

This descriptive, qualitative and quantitative research analizes a linguistic taboo in the Cearense speech according to the interdisciplinary areas of Sociolinguistics and non clinical Neurolinguistics. It is demonstrated that it is possible to join the interdisciplinary areas in both theoretical and methodological principles. With the use of GoldVarb X program, the concepts of euphemism and dysphemism, besides the concepts of conscious and unconscious in Freudian psychology, have been taken into consideration. The statistical results showed that the capital Fortaleza replaces disphemized the word prostitute, with other euphemized variants, such as rapariga. The other controlled cities showed different results, but in general it can be consider that the conscious use of the word prostitut is stigmatized, more than in euphemized variants such as rapariga or mulher de vida fácil. The statistical data demonstrate that when using a taboo word, in an euphemized or dysphemized way, the speaker unconsciously chooses one of the variants motivated by sex and age factors.