The Expressive Creativity of Euphemism and Dysphemism
Euphemism and dysphemism are two cognitive processes of conceptualisation, with countervalent effects (having the same base and resources but different aims and purposes), of a certain forbidden reality. The expressiveness immanent in these phenomena is so consubstantial that it explains not only it...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | Miguel Casas Gómez |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2012-06-01
|
| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/349 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items
-
Euphemism and Language Change: The Sixth and Seventh Ages
by: Kate Burridge
Published: (2012-06-01) -
The Translatability of Euphemism and Dysphemism in Arabic-English Subtitling
by: Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh
Published: (2012-06-01) -
The Neological Functions of Disease Euphemisms in English and French: Verbal Hygiene or Speech Pathology?
by: Denis Jamet
Published: (2018-12-01) -
Framing Conflict through Euphemism and Dysphemism in Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern Media
by: Muhammad Ali Rohmatullah, et al.
Published: (2025-04-01) -
Linguistic Taboo in Romanian Poetry. Trauma, Depression and Addictions
by: Alina NECULACHI
Published: (2025-03-01)