Taboo in discourse : studies on attenuation and offence in communication / Eliecer Crespo-Fernández (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crespo Fernández, Eliecer, editor.

Series:

Linguistic insights ; v. 240.

Linguistic Insights : studies in language and communication, 1424-8689 ; volume 240

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taboo, Linguistic.

Discourse analysis.

Taboo in literature.

Euphemism.

Communication.

Physical Description:

307 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bern, Switzerland ; New Yok : Peter Lang, [2018]

Contents:

Taboo in Discourse: An Overview / Eliecer Crespo-Fernández

From Lexicon to Discourse in the Linguistic Expression of Taboo: Configuring New Social Realities / Gérard Fernández Smith & Miguel Casas Gómez

Politically Tabooed Measures: Sanitizing the Economic Crisis through Metaphor and Euphemism / María José Hellín-García

Political Discourse in John Tutchin: Hedges as Euphemistic and Persuasive Devices / Rosa M. Lopéz-Campillo

The Victim or the Cause? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Cartoons Depicting PSOE's Internal Political Crisis / María Muelas-Gil

Offence Strategies in Political Cartoons / María Jésus Pinar-Sanz

Metonymy as a Strengthening Strategy in Road Safety Campaigns / Isabel Negro Alousque

Pardon my Spanish: Attenuation of Taboo through Metapragmatic Euphemistic Formulae / Andrea Pizarro Pedraza

Please, Like Me: Coming Out of the Closet in the Millennial Generation / Isabel López Cirugeda

Taboo in Prison: X-phemistic Language in Orange Is the New Black / Raquel Sánchez Ruiz

Approaching the Translation of Dysphemistic Language: Swear Words and Offensive Terms in The Catcher in the Rye / Roberto Martínez Mateo

The Discourse-Pragmatic Conditions of Sexual Interdiction in La Lozana. Masculine Sex and Escape from Vagueness / Emilio Montero Cartelle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783034330183

3034330189

OCLC:

1016272332