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...

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...

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...

Pronoun avoidance is the use of kinship terms, titles and other complex nominal expressions instead of personal pronouns in speech. Many languages feature...

translates as 'the truth we all know but agree not to talk about' Avoidance speech, a sociolinguistic phenomenon found in some aboriginal languages The...

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'...

mother-in-law character. Some Australian Aboriginal languages use avoidance speech, so-called "mother-in-law languages", special sub-languages used when...

severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g. self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive...

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...

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...