User:Authenticgranolapotato

= About me =

Hi! I am an undergraduate in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, majoring in Linguistics.

I am a Python hobbyist, and am currently maintaining a few Discord bots for a few games I play. I'm currently picking up Java, with a focus on the ArtiSynth project.

I was a contributor in the school project HG2052 Language, Technology and the Internet, to expand on a linguistics-related page as an introduction to how wikis work. The page our team worked on was word taboo.

Let's get along!

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= Project =

This project is part of SUP:NTU HG252 Language, Technology and the Internet.

Draft can be found here.

 Selected page: Word taboo

A field in anthropological/sociolinguistics where cultural norms impose restrictions on utterances in language.

Also known as linguistic taboo, taboo language.

 Possible enhancements for page 


 * Improve page summary.
 * Problematic page title:
 * Taboo does not just apply just for words. It can involve other aspects such as register.
 * Could nominate a page rename to taboo language or linguistic taboo.
 * But linguistic taboo redirects to naming taboo, but is not the same thing. What to do?
 * Supported by existing comments on the talkpage.
 * Missing exposition sections:
 * Theory (causes, consequences).
 * Examples.
 * Statistics on frequency/distribution among languages.
 * Quality of existing content:
 * Unclear/missing citations.
 * Lack of association to related topics: naming taboo, the sociological phenomenon of taboo etc.

 Sources 


 * Main texts:
 * Allan & Burridge (2006). Forbidden words. Cambridge University Press. (link)
 * Storch (2017) Typology of secret languages and linguistic taboos. In The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology.
 * Also sources ibid. (many).
 * Existing sources on the page.

 Feedback 


 * Re: renaming - refer to academic consensus. Drop a note on the related pages. Use "What links here" tool to find redirects and update.
 * Good to have examples from other languages. Can use Malay (referring to hunting game).