Euphemism

The euphemism treadmill is a linguistic mechanism proposed to explain the continual replacement of formerly benign expressions that become pejorative, with new terms that eventually meet the same fate. Advocacy by the political correctness movement accounts for much of this cyclical euphemism generation and substitution. Researchers have sought analogies from other academic disciplines to elucidate the euphemism treadmill. This paper identifies and compares two abstractions from the science of…

challenges that reality harnesses, such as global warming or one’s honest thoughts. Whereas, others suspect that this usage helps the community achieve certain duties. Although both standpoints on the matter are typically correct in some ways, the use of euphemisms has done both harm and good. The good is that it aids doctors and healthcare professionals in treating patients feasibly by calming them down during difficult situations. As well as, allowing soldiers to focus their attention on the…

CRITICALLY ANALYSE THE NOTION THAT AUSTRALIA IS AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY WITH REFERENCE TO RACISM AND ETHNICITY Australia’s essence is ethnically diverse. A provocative euphemism would support Australia as an egalitarian society and to say otherwise would be concealing the truth. By critically analyzing sociological theories together with implemented public policies and societal worldviews towards racism and ethnicity, this essay analyses Australia’s social fabric and competing historical…

Proposal” uncovers the laxity of British and Irish Gentry towards the increasing poverty in Ireland and the exploitation of the Irish. With its metaphors that depicts cannibalism as an acceptable solution to hunger, ‘modest’ can only be seen as an euphemism for this egregious suggestion. This satire dictates an economically insightful proposal that alleviate poor parents of their ‘bastard children’. As a result of this proposal, the outcome suggests to hinder children from being an excessive…

desire/ to travel building up, an itch/ to see fresh worlds" (Hudgins 6-9). In addition, the speaker knows that his father has a positive outlook on death because of what heaven promises. Further evidence supports, as the speaker uses yet another euphemism for heaven, "to travel building up" (Hudgins 8), we can see how far he distances himself from his father 's religious beliefs. Unlike Thomas, who wants his father to, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Line 19), it can be inferred…

Chapter Three: Al-Dulaimi and Aubed's (2012) study provides examples on the translation of euphemisms in the Holy Qur'an. They assert that euphemism is a very important rhetorical device that has not been given any attention by the Holy Qur'an’s translators. They investigate how some translators of the Holy Qur'an rendered euphemistic expressions into English. To achieve that, they analyze five Qur'anic euphemistic expressions in three different translations based on Al-Esfahani's Mufradat…

Many are under the assumption that women are more likely to be sexually assaulted or raped by a stranger than by someone they know personally. Many presume that “family conflicts”—which has been used as a euphemism for domestic violence—should be kept private. Many believe that these types of heinous crimes do not happen in their neighborhood. All of these notions are false. Each and every day, these monstrous crimes are being committed to innocent people. Depending on the severity of their…

more than five minutes!” “Okay Sam, the similarities between job seeking and dating is noticeable,” I said stoically. “Having Job security is paramount for most people,” Sam reassured me with his eyebrows raised high. “Job security is a euphemism.” “Euphemism for what?” “Complacency, Sam. Sam is the face and voice in my admonishing me about the consequences. He represents my thoughts, fears, critics, and most of all he is my first point of contact. “When I think about complacency…

In the process of collecting the samples of death euphemisms in Chinese and English, it is found that both include the descriptions of the physical reactions of the dead. There are two most common physical reactions of death, one is to close eyes, and the other is to cease breathing. For the former, there…

personifies love while metaphorically objectifies Roderigo. Iago’s habit of turning people into objects, and objects into people, shows how twisted Shakespeare planned for us to perceive the goings of Iago’s dark mind. Shakespeare characterizes Iago using euphemisms. In (1.1.96-98)…