time. It must have been a frightening time too‚ “of coming to terms with same-sex sexuality‚ to invent language for its designation‚ control‚ and prosecution”‚ no wonder James choose to write a novella with “suggestive yet sheltering language of euphemism and denotative‚ confessional discourse that would expose ‘monstrous’ secrets.” (Matheson). In the beginning of The Turn of the Screw there is a Prologue‚ which is told by an unnamed narrator‚ where a character that we meet named Douglass‚ who has
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Carson claims how there has been a growing trend in the unnecessary application of parathion and how farmers are trying to “control” the concentration of birds. By putting quotes around a euphemism meant to curtail the severity of the killings‚ Carson actually emphasizes her argument against the farmers. She stresses the delusion in the farmers’ argument‚ as they are clearly annihilating the birds instead of controlling them. This word choice
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there‚ and her husband’s body now lies incinerated in the swamps or the pines or the palmetto grass‚ "burned beyond recognition‚" which anyone who had been around an air base for very long (fortunately Jane had not) realized was quite an artful euphemism to describe a human body that now looked like an enormous fowl that has burned up in a stove‚ burned a blackish brown all over‚ greasy and blistered‚ fried‚ in a word‚ with not only the entire face and all the hair and the ears burned off‚ not to
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While many turn to religion for explanations to help‚ people tend to push death as far from them as they can. Even in “Joyas Voldoras‚” Doyle retains the idea and thought of death to a minimum‚ employing euphemisms to discuss death. This fear leads to disillusion‚ and people thinking that death will not effect them until it becomes too close to ignore‚ whether with the death of a close family member‚ or the rapidly failing health of their own self. With Doyle’s
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Term Paper Application of Euphemism: Reflection of Cultures Introduction Euphemism is “example of the use of pleasant‚ mild or indirect words‚ or phrases in place of more accurate or direct ones” (Oxford for Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese dictionary page 491). It is also defined as “a kind of expressing method which aims at making people feel less embarrassed by using some words with vague and ambiguous meaning instead of those which may make people feel unpleasant and not respected” in Dictionary
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Cross-Cultural Communication Vol. 8‚ No. 6‚ 2012‚ pp. 66-70 DOI:10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020120806.1356 ISSN 1712-8358[Print] ISSN 1923-6700[Online] www.cscanada.net www.cscanada.org Cross-Cultural Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Euphemisms WANG Xiaoling[a]; ZHANG Meng[a]‚*; DONG Hailin[a] [a] College of Foreign Languages‚ Hebei United University‚ West Xinhua Road‚ Tangshan‚ China. * Corresponding author. Supported by Study on Application of Cross-Cultural Teaching Concept in
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misrepresented to gain the favor of the populous. This is evident in Orwell’s writing and in the “Hackvists” documentary‚ often during the course of Knappenberger’s documentary it is shown that euphemisms can greatly mislead and disrupt events in society. Orwell expresses similar views on the topic of euphemisms. In his writings Orwell conveys that a government’s ability to abuse power for gain is completely unjust‚ this coincides with the hacktivist point of view on freedom of speech and oppression
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George Carlin expresses his views about euphemisms in 1990 when he wrote “Doin it’ again.” He states that Americans use euphemism because they can’t accept the truth. He expands on this idea by giving examples of how Americans use soft words so they don’t offend other people when in reality there is nothing offensive about the word. Carlin observed this multiple times and started to realize that this was happening to often and how it was pointless for people to make things seem better
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Bad Memories for Orwell. George Orwell demonstrated how writers and politicians use euphemisms‚ doublespeak‚ and other misconceptions to mislead their audience and hide their real agenda; he exposed politicians in his times and predicted future trends and practices in the English language usage. He expected the English language to deteriorate and individual thoughts and expression to be limited. His goal was to make people understand this practice and see through public speeches and political writings
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The study on comparison and translation between English and Chinese Euphemisms Gao Hongqin Southwest University Abstract: Euphemism is one kind of figures of speech and it refers to the substitution of mild or vague or roundabout expression for harsh or direct one. As an indispensable and natural part of language‚ euphemism has been arousing wide interest. Achievements in the study of euphemism from the perspectives of rhetoric‚ semantics‚ pragmatics and sociolinguists have
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