Taboo and Cultural Psychology in Cantonese

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.176How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cantonese; taboo; characteristics; cultural psychology

Abstract

Guangdong province has a well-developed commercial economy with a large population. In the long-term development of Cantonese, there have many taboos. Taboos are linguistic customs that have local dialects or social dialects. Many taboo words in Cantonese are often ignored by the public because of their meaning or pronunciation. Instead, they are often counter-productive euphemisms. For example, people in Guangdong say that "pig blood" is "pig red", "vacant house" is "Jiwu", "aunt" is "boyou" and so on. At the same time, these taboo words in daily life reflect the thick commercial culture of Guangdong province to a certain extent. Also, they reflect people’s fear of ominous things and their hope for a better life.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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