About (modern) Uyghur ('kara') 'esek' Scorpion

• Authors: Knueppel M.
• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the well known but less investigated problem of language-taboos in modern Uyghur - here in the light of the taboo for 'scorpion', its appearance and its motives in the Toksun-dialect of Uyghur. In addition the writer gives some information about the cultural surrounding as well as the problem of language-taboo in general.

Keywords

EN

LANGUAGE-TABOOS IN UYGHUR

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 44-47
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Knueppel M.

• M. Knueppel, Department of Turcology and Central Asian Studies, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04057951