Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Euphemism and Dysphemism In this fascinating study, Keith Allan and Kate Burrige examine the linguistic, social, and psychological aspects of this intriguing universal practice.
Author : Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1472596544
Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a bridge that brings together mind and language. It does this through the analysis of the antithetical mechanisms of verbal mitigation and offence. These two mechanisms are (more commonly know as) euphemism and (its lesser known companion term) dysphemism. The volume reflects on the social and communicative functions that sexual metaphors perform in a sample of almost two hundred postings taken from internet forums. How do people think about sex? How do people avoid talking about sex? How do people paraphrase sexual topics? It offers an account of how real language users understand sexual taboo in present-day English and also a great grounding in manual corpus work on a qualitative level.
Author : Donna R. Cheney
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2006-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139457608
Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.
Author : Dennis Joseph Enright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
16 essays that reveal the behaviour, beliefs and fears that prompt us to circumlocate some of the more basic facts of life.
Author : Dennis Joseph Enright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
16 essays that reveal the behaviour, beliefs and fears that prompt us to circumlocate some of the more basic facts of life.
Author : R. W. Holder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199235171
This is a study of the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery and deceit. It dissects the human tendency to prefer vague, roundabout expressions rather than use words which are precise and disagreeably true.
Author : Andrea Pizarro Pedraza
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110580519
Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due to its social stigmatization and inherent linguistic complexity. Recently, though, there has been a renewed interest in revisiting the phenomenon, especially from cognitive frameworks. This volume is the first collection of papers dealing with linguistic taboo from that perspective. The volume gathers 15 chapters, which provide novel insights into a broad range of taboo phenomena (euphemism, dysphemism, swearing, political correctness, coprolalia, etc.) from the fields of sexuality, diseases, death, war, ageing or religion. With a special focus on lexical semantics, the authors in the volume work within Cognitive Linguistics frameworks such as conceptual metaphor and metonymy, cultural conceptualization or cognitive sociolinguistics, but also at the interface of pragmatics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, cognitive science or psychiatry. This volume provides theoretical reflections and case studies based on new methods and data from varied languages (English, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Persian, Gikũyũ and Egyptian Arabic). As such, it moves towards a new generation of linguistic taboo studies.
Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230598758
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Euphemism, Eponym, Figure of speech, Metaphor, Dysphemism, Spoonerism, Simile, Synecdoche, Double entendre, Antithesis, Catachresis, Chiasmus, Elision, Monologue, Pleonasm, Social trap, Zeugma, Pissing contest, Epenthesis, Aporia, Sarcasm, Anaphora, Pathetic fallacy, Adynaton, Mess of pottage, Just-so story, Rhetorical operations, Prosthesis, Flying pig, Herd mentality, Polysyndeton, Metalepsis, Tmesis, Code word, Paraprosdokian, Asyndeton, Apocope, Dodo bird verdict, Pars pro toto, Merism, Star Wars Day, Wellerism, Circumlocution, L'esprit de l'escalier, See a man about a dog, Hysteron proteron, Antanaclasis, Prosopopoeia, Shadow of the Leader, Trope, Anadiplosis, Pollyanna principle, Paradiastole, Lone wolf, Hypallage, Scheme, Polyptoton, Flummery, Syncope, Difrasismo, Epistrophe, Love-hate relationship, Roger Dodger, Metaplasm, Personification, Synesis, Rest of the world, Climax, Sandancer, Bromide, Synaeresis, Apheresis, Cataphora, Polite fiction, Totum pro parte, Synalepha, Corpsing, Epanalepsis, Prophetic perfect tense, Diacope, Correption, Hypocatastasis, Wallflower, Epanorthosis, Robust decision, Tricolon, Above my paygrade, Liming, Occupatio, Antiphrasis, Negative equality nostalgia, Phrop, Procatalepsis, Prolepsis, Mokita, Six Feet Under, Aphorismus, Breaking point, Weak mindedness, Accismus, Antanagoge, TOTimal, Paromoiosis, Ploce, Parachesis, Praegnans constructio, Parasyntheton, Palilogy, Classification.
Author : Eric Grillo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789027227027
The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach of the discursive dimension of power. It challenges the usual conception of discourse and power that underlies most of the current theories in contemporary discourse analysis, and shows that it is unsatisfying in so far as it reduces power to domination and discourse to power technology. In opposition to such a conception, an alternative model of power-in-discourse is constructed. It is called "Dialogical Model" in accordance with its being grounded in a dialogical conception of discourse that naturally leads to a participative conception of power (as empowerment). Part One provides the DM with theoretical and philosophical foundations, while Part Two affords empirical evidence by applying the DM to such typical situations as journalistic discourse under censorship, classroom sessions, and children interaction in a problem-solving situation.
