Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- List of contributing Authors -- Introduction -- 1. Lexicon, discourse and cognition: terminological delimitations in the conceptualizations of linguistic taboo -- Part I: Construal -- 2. The axiological and communicative potential of homosexual-related metaphors -- 3. Metonymy-based euphemisms in war-related speeches by George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- 4. Ambiguity and vagueness as cognitive tools for euphemistic and politically correct speech -- Part II: Cultural Conceptualization -- 5. Old age revolution in Australian English: Rethinking a taboo concept -- 6. Taboo subjects as insult intensifiers in Egyptian Arabic -- 7. Emotion concepts in context: Figurative conceptualizations of hayâ 'self-restraint' in Persian -- 8. A Cognitive Linguistics approach to menstruation as a taboo in Gĩkũyũ -- 9. The socio-cognitive aspects of taboo in two cultures: A case study on Polish and British English -- 10. The influence of conceptual differences on processing taboo metaphors in the foreign language -- Part III: Cognitive Sociolinguistics -- 11. Why do the Dutch swear with diseases? -- 12. Calling things by their name: Exploring the social meanings in the preference for sexual (in)direct construals -- 13. The perception of the expression of taboos: a sociolinguistic study -- Part IV: Interdisciplinary Approaches -- 14. Scrupulosity, sexual ruminations and cleaning in Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder -- 15. Swearing as emotion acts -- Index