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Article: May you be shot with greasy bullets: curse utterances in Turkish.
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- Asian Folklore Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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This article on Turkish curse utterances has two closely related purposes. The first is to help fill a gap in our knowledge of speech acts. Earlier studies have examined speech acts such as requesting, apologizing, and complimenting, but thus far none have examined the act of cursing. The second purpose is to provide a resource to be used for cross-cultural studies on the act of cursing.
The relationship between a language, its speakers, and their thought and culture has been a topic of interest among philosophers and linguists for a long time. SAPIR was the first to argue cogently that language and culture are inextricably related, and that it is not possible to ...