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Sexually Explicit Euphemism in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog. Mitigation or Offence?
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2006 It is the purpose of this paper to provide an overview of the euphemistic modality that I shall call ‘explicit euphemism’ by means of an insight into the taboo of sex in Yellow Dog (2003) by Martin Amis.
Eliecer Crespo Fernández
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Perlocutionary Act of Euphemism in Indonesian Presidential Election Debate 2019
Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics, 2020 Presidential election debate attracts public attention toward general election. Through the presidential debate, euphemism is uttered by candidates, and it creates effect to other debaters. This paper is focused on examining effect (perlocutionary act)of
Wahyuningsih Wahyuningsih, Deli Nirmala
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The Study of Euphemism in Shahnameh: A Semantic Approach [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2021 The present study investigates the mechanisms of euphemism in Shahnameh. It is assumed that euphemism is the conscious or unconscious substitution of harsh, unpleasant, or embarrassing taboo words for a mild or indirect word or expression, used to reduce
Sayfollah Mollaye Pashaye +1 more
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TEDB System Description to a Shared Task on Euphemism Detection 2022 [PDF]
FLP, 2023 In this report, we describe our Transformers for euphemism detection baseline (TEDB) submissions to a shared task on euphemism detection 2022. We cast the task of predicting euphemism as text classification.
Peratham Wiriyathammabhum
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Euphemism in the Instagram Captions of Lambe Turah: A Semantics Approach
Journal of English Language Studies, 2021 Lambe turah as the most popular anonymous accounts on social media in Instagram, discusses celebrity life and viral events, demanded avoid misinterpretation or any lawsuits to prevent of losing their face. To avoid it, Lambe Turah used euphemism. Through
Aulia Juli Saputri +2 more
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The Importance of Utilizing Euphemism in Translation and Simultaneous Interpreting
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2022 Euphemism is an important linguistic phenomenon that tends to soften written or oral expressions. Thus, when translators or interpreters face expressions including euphemism, they need to know how to deal with them. The problem of the current paper lies
Hala Ghanim Mohammed +1 more
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Self-Supervised Euphemism Detection and Identification for Content Moderation [PDF]
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2021 Fringe groups and organizations have a long history of using euphemisms—ordinary-sounding words with a secret meaning—to conceal what they are discussing.
Wanzheng Zhu +6 more
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Exploring Euphemism Detection in Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Settings [PDF]
FLP, 2022 This work builds upon the Euphemism Detection Shared Task proposed in the EMNLP 2022 FigLang Workshop, and extends it to few-shot and zero-shot settings.
Sedrick Scott Keh
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SULUK: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2023 The mass media tends to use euphemisms in political news narratives. The euphemistic was chosen by the editor to avoid controversy due to the broadcast of a news material.
Haidar Jaganegara, I. P. Wijana
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On Extralinguistic Motivation in Semantic Change: Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [PDF]
Academic Journal of Modern Philology, 2023 This article is meant to be a contribution to the study of the multifaceted nature of taboo and euphemism that represent those linguistic mechanisms that are created by the working of both overt and covert social and psychological factors.
Grzegorz A. Kleparski
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