عنوان

Understanding the Linguistic and Cultural Taboos of Lebanese Arabic Speakers in Australia

شماره

TL49857

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Understanding the Linguistic and Cultural Taboos of Lebanese Arabic Speakers in Australia

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Fouad Abi-Esber

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Western Sydney University (Australia)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2017

نام خاص و کميت اثر

397

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=9781083555571

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

M.A.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Western Sydney University (Australia)

امتياز متن

2017

متن يادداشت

This study aims to investigate how Lebanese Arabic speakers living in Australia negotiate their linguistic taboos, with the purpose of comprehending their cross-cultural adaptation in the Australian context. The specific research focal point of this study includes: 1) how Lebanese Arabic speakers handle and deal with Arabic linguistic taboos and; 2) how gender, age, religion and educational background might affect Lebanese Arabic speakers' preference for taboo words. A qualitative research tool, NVIVO 10 software, was used to analyse the questionnaire and interview, and help sort major themes, as identified above, for critical discussion. The research project has four important findings. First, participants provided a wide range of definitions of taboos and indicated that such definitions were not only restricted to sexual references. The participants stated that they used or refrained from using linguistic taboo words, according to the situation and context. For example, they used linguistic taboos in more sensitive scenarios such as infidelity. Second, the results show that female participants are closing the gap between their male counterparts in the use of taboo words. Third, one of the major findings is that there would seem to be no major differences between Muslim and Christian participants in the usage of strong linguistic taboo words. Fourth, results also show that older participants used more linguistic taboo language (LT) than younger participants. Finally, educated participants would seem more likely to use more taboo language than noneducated ones. These research results will help to understand the sociolinguistic landscape of the Lebanese community regarding taboo usage in Australia. Additionally, they provide insights into how Lebanese speakers manage linguistic taboos successfully in social interactions through using their cross-linguistic skills and cross-cultural knowledge.

موضوع مستند نشده

Ethnic studies; Sociolinguistics; Religion; Qualitative research; Taboo language; Arabic language; Negotiation; Questionnaires; Culture; Context; Computer software

اصطلاح موضوعی

(UMI)AAI10820803;Social sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stewart, Marcus L.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Western Sydney University (Australia)

شماره بازیابی

2033935630; 10820803

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y