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Metaphorical euphemisms in death-discourse among the Nzema
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2022 This article seeks to deepen our understanding of the cognitive processes in death euphemisms in Nzema, a Kwa language of Ghana. The article highlights the metaphorical “mappings” across conceptual domains, where the concept of death (target domain) is ...
Mohammed Yakub, Kofi Agyekum
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Euphemistic names of a snake based on its habitat and behaviour
Lietuvių Kalba, 2014 Scholarly works on snake euphemisms have not been numerous, yet it is worth mentioning a recent article “Euphemistic snake names” by B. Jasiūnaitė and M. Smetona (2013).
Marius Smetona
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ILCEA, 2021 The 2015 migration crisis, which affected Germany directly, raised numerous issues of terminology and was fertile ground for the “politically correct” in its original dimension, meaning a mode of expression to avoid showing disrespect to minorities.
Philippe Verronneau
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 Euphemisms are the main social lingua non franca. They allow speakers to mitigate the meaning of what has been said or what is going to be said if the words are offensive, indecent or unpleasant.
M. Laskova, K. Kotikova
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Anthroponymic Code in Ukrainian Demonymy [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The study deals with personal names used as euphemisms for devils in the Carpathian-Ukrainian folk epic tradition. This function is quite uncommon of proper names in the East Slavic demonology (cf.
Lyudmila N. Vinogradova
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Tracing the Space Between Euphemisms and Dysphemisms: The Case of Obesity in English and German
ELOPE, 2019 The paper investigates how obesity as an aspect of physical appearance is represented in English and German. The existence of various expressions that refer to obesity leads to the assumption that both investigated languages rely on euphemisms and ...
Sanja Škifić, Anita Pavić Pintarić
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„FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS?” DEATH AND DYING-RELATED LANGUAGE/ VOCABULARY. LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES IN ALBANIAN AND ROMANIAN [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2010 Balkan languages entail many euphemisms regarding death and funeral rituals. This paper focuses on the comparative study of Romanian and Albanian euphemisms, emphasizing their often use in similar contexts and at the same time their semantic differences.
Dr. Benita STAVRE +2 more
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Russian Language Euphemisms in Sergei Dovlatov`s Works
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018 Language as a phenomenon that reflects society's view of the world and cultural values is constantly developing. Each stage of language development is different and different stages have their own characteristic features.
Zulfiya ŞAHİN
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COMBINATORY WAYS OF COINING EUPHEMISMS
Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2015 The article analyses the most productive combinatory ways of coining euphemisms in the English language. The provided models are illustrated with numerous examples, and the findings suggest that combinatory ways of word formation are characteristic of 20.
V.B. Velykoroda
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Truths and euphemisms: How euphemisms are used in the political arena [PDF]
, 2011 Politicians are notorious for their employment of words in a disguised fashion through the usage of euphemisms. Consequently, their message becomes a recurrent theme of conspicuous deception.
Savo Karam,
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