A list of euphemism-taboo pairs used to evaluate gender asymmetry in euphemism over time, for the paper:
Kapron-King, A. and Xu, Y. (to appear) A diachronic evaluation of gender asymmetry in euphemism. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, ACL.
In the csv, the euphemism is in the euphemism column, their corresponding taboo expression is in the taboo column, and the source column contains a citation corresponding to one of the following sources (or -- if no source)
- Collier, R. (2010). Who you calling obese, Doc? CMAJ, 182(11), 1161–1162. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3308
- Hayes-Bautista, D. E., & Chapa, J. (1987). Latino terminology: Conceptual bases for standardized terminology. American Journal of Public Health, 77(1), 61–68. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.1.61
- Lakoff, R. (1973). Language and Woman’s Place. LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY, 37.
- Martin, B. L. (1991). From Negro to Black to African American: The Power of Names and Naming. Political Science Quarterly, 106(1), 83–107. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/2152175
- Nowrasteh, A. (2017, December 7). The Use of Euphemisms in Political Debate. Cato Institute. https://www.cato.org/blog/use-euphemisms-political-debate
- O’Conner, P. T., & Kellerman, S. (2012, July 31). Crippled, handicapped, disabled? Grammarphobia. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/07/crippled-handicapped-disabled.html
- OED. 1989. OED Online. http://www.oed.com/. Accessed: 2020-04-06.
- Rawson, H. (1981). A dictionary of euphemisms & other doubletalk (1st ed.). Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Sagi, E., Gann, T. M., & Matlock, T. (2015). The Moral Rhetoric of Climate Change. In D. C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2063–2068).
- Silver, M. (2015, January 4). If You Shouldn’t Call It The Third World, What Should You Call It? Goats and Soda: Stories of Life in a Changing World. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/01/04/372684438/if-you-shouldnt-call-it-the-third-world-what-should-you-call-it
- Woelfel, M. (2019, September 19). Pot? Weed? Marijuana? What Should We Call It? In WBEZ. NPR. https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/09/19/762044859/pot-weed-marijuana-what-should-we-call-it
- Yandell, K. (2015). Indian, Native, Indigene: The Reverberations of a Quiet Linguistic Revolution. American Literary History, 27(2), 374–391. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajv011