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MATTHIAS ROTHE / HARTMUT SCHRÖDER explore Massenkommunikation. SANDRA MÜLLER discusses Body Talk in "We, on Death Row." HARTMUT SCHÖNHERR examines the semiotics of taboos and reconciliation. OLAF ARNDT presents insights on the inner keyboard. In the section on aesthetic representations, MICHAEL EGGERS analyzes the interplay of voice, language, and religion in E. T. A. Hoffmann's work. JÖRG HEINIG addresses taboos in Thomas Brussig's novel, while STEFANIE DIEKMANN investigates body representation in Tod Browning's film "Freaks." BJÖRN QUIRING further explores deviant and normative bodies in the same film. The discourse analysis section features CHRISTO TODOROV on the inviolability of democratic consensus and WERNER KONITZER on camaraderie and intimacy as ethical moments of taboo violations. WOLFRAM EILENBERGER delves into the philosophical foundations of M. M. Bakhtin's carnival theory, and MATTHIAS ROTHE discusses sensitive semantics in theater. The language and translation section includes SILVI SALUPERE on translating tabooed lexicon in Peeter Sauter's novella and IGOR PANASIUK / HARTMUT SCHRÖDER on taboo, body lexicon, and circumvention strategies across multiple languages, including German, Finnish, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.