• Avoidance speech is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to...
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    to replace the everyday term in certain cultural situations. Avoidance speech is speech style used when talking to or near certain relatives: one's siblings...
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  • found primarily in avoidance speech such as the "mother-in-law languages" of aboriginal Australia, where one changes one's speech in the presence of an...
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    mother-in-law character. Some Australian Aboriginal languages use avoidance speech, so-called "mother-in-law languages", special sub-languages used when...
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  • Pronoun avoidance is the use of kinship terms, titles and other complex nominal expressions instead of personal pronouns in speech. Many languages feature...
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    status; vocabulary referring to the animal's presence (but also in avoidance speech) is also attested, such as aso for 'dog' or buang / bohang for 'bear'...
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  • related. Poison refers to a relation one is obligated to avoid. See avoidance speech. The term second, or little bit in northern Australia, is used with...
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    severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g. self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive...
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    limited lexicon used by men in the presence of their mothers-in-law (see Avoidance speech). As well, quite a few sign languages have a gendered distinction due...
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    translates as 'the truth we all know but agree not to talk about' Avoidance speech, a sociolinguistic phenomenon found in some aboriginal languages The...
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  • of relationship contrasts strongly with societies where so-called avoidance speech or "mother-in-law" language is imposed to minimise interaction between...
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  • self-humbling first-person pronouns. An Affinal taboo index is an example of avoidance speech that produces and reinforces sociological distance, as seen in the...
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  • did not originally feature clicks. Euphemism escalator Name taboo Avoidance speech Expurgation Profanity Racial slurs Un-word of the year Noa-name – Word...
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  • or the person's speech is considered evasive in that the person has decided to provide an answer to a question that is an avoidance of a direct answer...
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    Traditional custodianship Tjurunga Torres Strait Islands Language(s) Avoidance speech Australian Aboriginal English Macro-Gunwinyguan languages Australian...
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  • describes pecong as a "verbal battle of insults hurled in rhymed verse." Avoidance speech (mother-in-law languages) Call and response Diss track The dozens Extempo...
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  • mourning period for women or during initiation ceremonies for men. Avoidance speech in Australian Aboriginal languages is closely tied to elaborate tribal...
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  • Traditional custodianship Tjurunga Torres Strait Islands Language(s) Avoidance speech Australian Aboriginal English Macro-Gunwinyguan languages Australian...
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    of many Australian languages is that they display so-called avoidance speech, special speech registers used only in the presence of certain close relatives...
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    Traditional custodianship Tjurunga Torres Strait Islands Language(s) Avoidance speech Australian Aboriginal English Macro-Gunwinyguan languages Australian...
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  • son/daughter-in-law with their mother-in-law serves as a common case. Avoidance speech is the most likely way to communicate with one's mother-in-law. It...
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  • just now?", this would be phrased in normal speech as: Wuunda gnin kitneean? In Gunditjmara avoidance speech the same sentiment would be articulated quite...
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  • a type of speech associated with an older person speaking to a child or infant. It is also called caretaker speech, infant-directed speech (IDS), child-directed...
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    (whip-tail kangaroo) and the dhulmbanu (grey wallaroo). In brother-in-law avoidance speech all 10 varieties were referred to by one word daarraalngan In one's...
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  • fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism". Fillers are parts of speech which are...
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  • from the original on 3 May 2008. Snowdon, Warren (20 March 2002). "First speech as the member for Lingiari". Archived from the original on 18 October 2009...
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  • A tax treaty, also called double tax agreement (DTA) or double tax avoidance agreement (DTAA), is an agreement between two countries to avoid or mitigate...
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  • Traditional custodianship Tjurunga Torres Strait Islands Language(s) Avoidance speech Australian Aboriginal English Macro-Gunwinyguan languages Australian...
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    Traditional custodianship Tjurunga Torres Strait Islands Language(s) Avoidance speech Australian Aboriginal English Macro-Gunwinyguan languages Australian...
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    Abstinence-only sex education (also known as sexual risk avoidance education) is a form of sex education that teaches not having sex outside of marriage...
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