Linguistic taboo revisited : novel insights from cognitive perspectives Foreword Keith Allan Introduction Andrea Pizarro Pedraza Lexicon discourse and cognition : terminological delimitations in the conceptualizations of linguistic taboo Miguel Casas Gómez Construal The axiological and communicative potential of homosexual related metaphors Eliecer Crespo Fernández Metonymy based euphemisms in war related speeches by George W. Bush and Barack Obama Ivana Moritz Ambiguity and vagueness as cognitive tools for euphemistic and politically correct speech Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez Cultural conceptualization Old age revolution in Australian English : rethinking a taboo concept Réka Benczes Kate Burridge Keith Allan Farzad Sharifian Taboo subjects as insult intensifiers in Egyptian Arabic Magdalena Zawrotna Emotion concepts in context : figurative conceptualizations of hayâ self restraint in Persian Mohsen Bakhtiar A cognitive linguistics approach to menstruation as a taboo in Gikuyu Moses Gatambuki Gathigia Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo and Ruth Wangeci Ndungu The socio cognitive aspects of taboo in two cultures : a case study on Polish and British English Anna Kuzio The influence of conceptual differences on processing taboo metaphors in the foreign language Barbara De Cock and Ferran Suner Cognitive sociolinguistics Why do the Dutch swear with d iseases Tom Ruette Calling things by their name : exploring the social meanings in the preference for sexual (in)direct construals Andrea Pizarro Pedraza The perception of the expression of taboos : a sociolinguistic study Ana M. Cestero Mancera Interdisciplinary approaches Scrupulosity sexual ruminations and cleaning in obsessive : compulsive disorder Habibollah Ghassemzadeh Swearing as emotion acts Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein Index.