title: X-phemisms, or On the difficulty in distinguishing between euphemisms and dysphemisms
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metadata.value: Fomina, Tatiana A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-07T10:00:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-07T10:00:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Fomina T. A. X-phemisms, or On the difficulty in distinguishing between euphemisms and dysphemisms. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2020, 17 (1): 122– 134.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2020.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17537
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The present paper attempts to examine the existing approaches to the study on euphemisms
  and dysphemisms. The paper finds that the study on euphemisms and dysphemisms should be
  based on the holistic approach that entails combining particular aspects of diverse fields and
  provides a comprehensive understanding of language as a cognitive-communicative, sociocultural
  and biopsychological phenomenon. Applying both functional-pragmatic and diachronic
  approaches proves to be effective in identifying euphemisms and dysphemisms and distinguishing
  between them. The results of the study indicate that not all low colloquialisms may
  be considered dysphemisms, although in some cases pejorative words, taboos and vulgarisms
  may serve as a conceptual source of dysphemisms. The study reveals that there can be no such
  notion as universal euphemism or universal dysphemism as the status of a word is determined
  by a set of social attitudes that may vary between dialect groups and even between individual
  members of the same community. Thus, when distinguishing between euphemisms and dysphemisms
  one should take into consideration diachronic meaning change, the current context,
  the previous context, subject-object relationship. The research data is taken from English
  socio-political discourse, media discourse, English monolingual and etymology dictionaries.
  The choice of the research data stems from the fact that media discourse and socio-political
  discourse reflect public ideologies and values, which allows to monitor diachronic meaning
  change conditioned by social factors. In addition to it, the dynamic nature of x-phemisms
  becomes observable in socio-political and media experiential contexts.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 17; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: euphemisms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dysphemisms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: orthophemisms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: diachronic semantics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: context
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: X-phemisms, or On the difficulty in distinguishing between euphemisms and dysphemisms
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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