This paper analyses the linguistic resources used by speakers to profile the participants in taboo actions, focusing on expressions for the concept abortar 'to abort' in Spanish sociolinguistic interviews. The tokens referring to the action are analysed in terms of linguistic features that affect agentivity at the level of verbs, subjects and objects. The combination of different linguistic features is classified in three levels of agentivity (prototypical agents, non-prototypical agents and non-agents) with various sublevels. The presence of modals further contributes to reducing agentivity, causing the maximally agentive profiling to be rather infrequent. Second, though the direct construal abortar is generally preferred, the levels of agentivity interplay with onomasiological variation. Third, social variables are not significantly correlated with the levels of agentivity. The paper concludes that mitigating agentivity is a euphemistic strategy against the taboo of a fully agentive woman who aborts, based on the cultural conceptualization of unwanted abortion.

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句法层面的禁忌效应

本文分析了演讲者用来描述禁忌行动参与者的语言资源，重点讨论了西班牙社会语言访谈中“堕胎”概念的表达。根据影响动词，主语和宾语水平的实体能力的语言特征来分析涉及该动作的标记。不同语言特征的组合分为三个级别的实体性（原型主体，非原型主体和非主体）和各个子级别。模态的存在进一步有助于降低代理能力，从而导致最大程度的代理配置很少出现。其次，尽管通常首选直接结直肠人工流产术，但实体水平与肿瘤学变异相互作用。第三，社会变量与代理水平没有显着相关。本文的结论是，基于无意识流产的文化概念，减轻代理能力是一种针对委屈的，完全堕胎的女性忌讳的委婉策略。