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Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa, 2012 In every culture, there are certain things that are not supposed to be speakable or mentioned directly. A number of words are labeled as frivolous, vulgar, or at least inconsiderate.
Rusdi Noor Rosa
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Aspects of Euphemism in Central Kurdish
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2022 One of the topics in the sociology of language is the linguistic taboo, which imposes varying degrees of restriction and prohibition on the speakers of each language. Accordingly, language users avoid using taboo words and expressions by applying methods
Hersh Kerim Hamid +1 more
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Adversarial Perturbations Augmented Language Models for Euphemism Identification
FLP, 2022 Euphemisms are mild words or expressions used instead of harsh or direct words while talking to someone to avoid discussing something unpleasant, embarrassing, or offensive. However, they are often ambiguous, thus making it a challenging task.
Guneet Singh Kohli +2 more
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Euphemism in Biblical Hebrew and the euphemistic ‘bless’ in the Septuagint of Job
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 The Septuagint (LXX) generally approached the antiphrastic, euphemistic use of ברך [bless] with a literal translation of ברך with εὐλογέω. This choice produced a Hebraism, as the Greek verb is not generally used antiphrastically.
Douglas T. Mangum
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Euphemism Used by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Political Debate
Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy, 2022 Alfarisi, M. S., Adi, A., & Astuti, E. S. (2019). A sociolinguistic analysis of taboo words in alpha dog movie. Journey (Journal of English Language and Pedagogy), 2(2), 146. https://doi.org/10.33503/journey.v2i2.535 Allan, K., & Burridge, K.
Roaini Shaunaa +2 more
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A diachronic evaluation of gender asymmetry in euphemism [PDF]
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 2021 The use of euphemisms is a known driver of language change. It has been proposed that women use euphemisms more than men. Although there have been several studies investigating gender differences in language, the claim about euphemism usage has not been ...
A. Kapron-King, Yang Xu
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Collegium antropologicum, 2021 This paper analyzes euphemisms - embellished expressions - excerpted from the Croatian public communication discourse. The introductory chapters provide an overview of the definitions of euphemisms, from rhetorical to cognitive-linguistic ones. The central part of the paper analyses the functions of euphemisms in Croatian public communication, the ways
Mikić Čolić, Ana, Glušac, Maja
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The Influence of Euphemism and Dysphemism on Politeness in the Malay Dialect of Kampar
KnE Social Sciences, 2022 This research aimed to describe the form and function of euphemisms and dysphemisms and their influence on politeness in the Kampar community. This was qualitative research and descriptive methods were used.
Y. Morelent, Bambang Irawan
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The old and the new formation of euphemisms. Graphical euphemisms formation in electronic discourse
Lietuvių Kalba, 2012 Euphemistic substitution occurs due to taboo issues and the most common taboo subjects are physiological actions or their results (motion, sexual intercourse etc) thus the basic function of euphemistic substitution is to soften an offensive, vulgar word.
Robertas Kudirka
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Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2020 What One Can Do in Fear – A Symptomatic Escape into Literalness Proper interpretation of the expression used in Ezekiel 7:17; 21:12 is difficult, as the variety of meanings expressed the translations indicates.
Marek Piela
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