Sex in language : euphemistic and dysphemistic metaphors in internet forums / Eliecer Crespo-Fernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crespo-Fernández, Eliecer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Euphemism.

Mass media and sex.

Metaphor.

Sex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

part one. Metaphor, Euphemism and Dysphemism

part two. Sex-related metaphors in internet forums.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350024267

1350024260

9781472596543

1472596544

9781474226851

147422685X

9781472596550

1472596552

OCLC:

908698665