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Sex in language : euphemistic and dysphemistic metaphors in internet forums
2015
Overview
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 ofverbal mitigationandoffence. 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.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic,Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Subject
/ Electronic discussion groups
/ Electronic discussion groups -- Social aspects
/ LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh
/ LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics. bisacsh
/ LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics. bisacsh
/ Metaphor
ISBN
1472596528, 9781472596529
