Eliecer Crespo-Fernández's Sex in Language: Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in PDF

By Eliecer Crespo-Fernández

ISBN-10: 1350024260

ISBN-13: 9781350024267

ISBN-10: 1472596528

ISBN-13: 9781472596529

Metaphor has lengthy supplied a wealthy approach to talk about the unspeakable, to consult soft concerns. intercourse is one such sector. This publication follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic method of the language of intercourse, contemplating metaphor as a bridge that brings jointly brain and language. It does this in the course of the research of the antithetical mechanisms of verbal mitigation and offence. those mechanisms are (more mostly recognize as) euphemism and (its lesser identified better half time period) dysphemism.

The quantity displays at the social and communicative services that sexual metaphors practice in a pattern of just about 2 hundred postings taken from web boards. How do humans take into consideration intercourse? How do humans keep away from conversing approximately intercourse? How do humans paraphrase sexual subject matters? It deals an account of the way genuine language clients comprehend sexual taboo in present-day English and in addition an exceptional grounding in handbook corpus paintings on a qualitative level.

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