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Euphemistic Dysphemisms and Their Connection with Obscene Vocabulary in the Youth English Oral Speech of the XXI Century

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The following article is devoted to the study of euphemistic dysphemisms and their connection with obscene vocabulary in the youth English oral speech of the XXI century.
F.V. Varfolomeev
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Euphemism and Dysphemism during the War of the Spanish Succession (1710-1713): George Ridpath

Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2017
Euphemism and dysphemism are common within political communication as the former is a linguistic make-up leading to deception and distortion of reality (Rodríguez González 1991: 90) whereas the latter highlights the most pejorative traits of the taboo ...
Raquel Sánchez Ruiz
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Meaning Component Analysis of Euphemism and Dysphemism in Indonesian Da’wah

International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2020
The objective of this research is to describe the forms of euphemism and dysphemism in Indonesian da’wah. The data were in the form of preachers' utterances containing expressions of euphemism and dysphemism. The data involved the context of utterance containing expressions of euphemism and dysphemism.
Matondang, Zulfahmirda, Sumarlam, Purnanto, Dwi   +2 more
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Apreciaciones sobre elementos valorativos y usos fáticos en el estilo comunicativo juvenil [PDF]

Sintagma, 2012
This paper offers an approach to youth language from the perspective of positive and negative evaluations studied in a Spanish Spoken Corpus of Youth Language (COLA, Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente). By analysing the tendency towards dysphemism among
María Isabel Rodríguez Ponce
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What are ʾElilim?

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2020
The Hebrew word ᵓĕlīlîm is usually explained as the plural of the Hebrew adjective ᵓĕlīl (“useless, vain”), hence a dysphemism describing idols. However, the ancient versions did not understand the word this way.
Mark W. Hamilton
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Usos eufemísticos y disfemísticos en las denominaciones de la profesión docente [PDF]

Sintagma, 2010
Politically correct language uses different discoursive strategies to hold up a liberal and apparently respectful discourse. The semantic field of professions lies under this influence, showing a clear tendency towards their ennoblement.
Luisa María Armenta Moreno
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Linguistic Taboo in Romanian Poetry. Trauma, Depression and Addictions

ACROSS, 2023
This paper aims to analyse the linguistic taboo in contemporary Romanian poetry, interpreting the euphemisms and dysphemisms related to traumatic experiences, depression and addictions, which function as tabooed realities at the level of the poetic ...
Alina NECULACHI
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PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF DYSPHEMISMS IN FRENCH

, 2023
This article will talk about the concept of dysphemism, the feedback of linguistic scholars on this concept, the pragmatic features of dysphemisms in the French language. It has also been suggested that the phenomenon of dysphemia, its characteristic feature, dysphemia is a discursive phenomenon, and dysphemism is both a linguistic and a speech ...
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One event, many narratives: (mis)representations in Nigerian political discourse

Language and Semiotic Studies
This study examines discourse structures and strategies employed by selected Nigerian socio-political actors to reconstruct a single dramatic event that involved Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari at the Argungu Fishing Festival in Kebbi State ...
Aliu Qasim Adeyemi
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From Sex and the City to Sex Education: Sex-Related Metaphors in TV Series

MediAzioni
This paper focuses on sex-related metaphors in two TV series, Sex and the City (1998-2004) and Sex Education (2019-2023). Although there are major differences between the two series, both are popular and successful TV series and were, at the time they ...
Adeline Terry
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