10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DYSPHEMISTIC»
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dysphemistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dysphemistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Frames Fields and Contrasts: New Essays in Semantic and ...
dysphemistic remark in a euphemistic manner. The reader therefore concludes
that the rhyming predicate s/he is seeking is dysphemistic. Note that the reader is
utilizing pragmatic criteria in trying to access an appropriate item from the lexicon
...
Adrienne Lehrer, Eva Feder Kittay, Richard Lehrer,
2012
2
Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends
And, as in previous figures of speech mentioned, dysphemistic meanings cause
false friends as well. So, when a given term develops any dysphemistic meaning
in a given language whose cognates in other languages do not, semantic false ...
Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez,
2012
3
Understanding Tropes: At the Crossroads Between Pragmatics ...
Allan and Burridge think that the locution is recognised as a euphemism even
though the illocutionary act might be regarded as dysphemistic; consequently
they have termed these words 'euphemistic dysphem- isms'. This term seems
equally ...
Javier Herrero Ruiz,
2009
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Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language
If such creatures are seen, they are referred to using the class name woo 'fish'
instead of bawang 'shark' or beoto 'ray'; likewise, the crocodile will not be called
ugama but emo meko 'man bad'. Euphemistic dysphemisms and dysphemistic ...
Keith Allan, Kate Burridge,
2006
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Meanings and Prototypes (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar): ...
meaning, other words with the same literal meaning are not equally dysphemistic
. Perhaps this occurs because a language can only support large numbers of real
, apparent, or partial synonyms coexisting when there are some communicative ...
7.6.1.2 Dysphemistic nouns The nominalised nouns can host a morpheme ?i= '
NM', a clitic usually used to form male reference terms. When affixed to an
individuated noun, it derives a dysphemistic noun (§3.3.7). Dysphemistic nouns'
are ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics
Odlin (1998) discusses euphemistic and dysphemistic (i.e., strong) forms of
negation in relation to learners' social perceptions. Along with the neutral no one,
a dysphemistic choice, devil a one, was available to speakers of Irish and
Scottish ...
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Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a ...
The nature of the euphemistic and dysphemistic taxonomic organization of
concepts they designate is inevitably heterogeneous, that is, heavily dependent
on the social structure and cultural influences from different sources and along ...
Antonio Barcelona, Réka Benczes, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez,
2011
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Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation ...
Shroud-swishing zombies: dysphemistic representations 215 Shroud-swishing
zombies: dysphemistic representations While most newspapers tend to use tenns
such as veil and headscarf, with terms such as niqab and hijab being less ...
Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Tony McEnery,
2013
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Euphemism & dysphemism: language used as shield and weapon
Terms like cripple or paraplegic are normally ascribed to someone who has been
physically inept in some way or another; similarly with a question like Are you
blind?, which can be dysphemistic about someone's visual perceptiveness.
Keith Allan, Kate Burridge,
1991
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DYSPHEMISTIC»
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dysphemistic is used in the context of the following news items.
Nkrumah Did Not Force His Views On African Leaders 7
... divestiture programs, unemployment, bureaucracy, total disregard for corporate social responsibility, mass illiteracy, and dysphemistic politics ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
Review: CNTRL Wrap Party, Richie Hawtin Live At The Palladium
... music (an almost dysphemistic variant of EDM) to music students of schools such as Berklee College of Music, NYU, SFSU and Penn State. «Monsters and Critics.com, Apr 15»
Defusing The F-Bomb For FCKH8's Potty-Mouthed Princesses …
... examples of cursing, and their respective categories (from first to last): abusive, emphatic, cathartic, dysphemistic, and idiomatic swearing. «Bustle, Dec 14»
This book is pretty %@$*/^# entertaining
The author makes a number of arguments about what linguistics professors Keith Allan, who wrote the book's foreword, calls “dysphemistic ... «The Recorder, Nov 14»
Unschooling: the Future of Education?
But then there's unschooling: a very intentional sort of negligence (though the word “negligence” is perhaps a bit too dysphemistic). Parents ... «The American Conservative, Aug 14»
Yahtzee Releases Survival Horror Game 'The Consuming Shadow …
Yahtzee is mostly known for his work on Zero Punctuation, which is a show where he reviews games in an often dysphemistic fashion. «SegmentNext News, Nov 13»
The Vagina A Literary and Cultural History
Is 'cunt' a word that can be moved from the dysphemistic (the polar opposite to 'euphemistic') to the purely orthophemistic (plain-spoken) realm ... «PopMatters, Sep 13»
The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, by Emma L. E. Rees
The abjection of female sexual organs, or what Rees calls their “dysphemistic” (the rendering offensive of something inoffensive) usage, has a ... «Times Higher Education, Aug 13»
Stop calling people “aliens”
In each of the examples provided above, “a formerly neutral term becomes dysphemistic and has to be replaced.” advertisement. Let's bring this ... «Salon, May 13»
AP dumps 'illegal immigrant' but not neutrality
My preference for “illegal immigrant” involved an unloading of the alternatives, either the dysphemistic “illegal alien” or the euphemistic ... «Poynter.org, Apr 13»