Linguistic taboos in hungarian politics
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https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9065.12.15Keywords:
Hungarian, language of the media, linguistic taboo, pejorative terms, political languageAbstract
In this paper I will analyse taboo words that are characteristic of contemporary Hungarian politics on the basis of personal observations and data gathered via internet and in a newspaper supporting the ruling party and its emblematic figure, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. I will present words that are merely pejorative (e.g. liberális ‘liberal’) but may become taboo words in certain circumstances, while others (e.g. alaptörvény ‘fundamental law’ used instead of alkotmány ‘constitution’) appear to have all the major characteristics of taboo words. It is by no means surprising to find that political taboo words are not the same in the two camps, the one supporting Orbán’s government and its opposition.
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