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Author:   Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   240
Weight:   0.533kg
ISBN:  

9783034330183

ISBN 10:   3034330189
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   12 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Eliecer Crespo-Fernández: Introduction. Taboo in Discourse: An Overview – Gérard Fernández Smith/Miguel Casas Gómez: From Lexicon to Discourse in the Linguistic Expression of Taboo: Configuring New Social Realities – María José Hellín-García: Politically Tabooed Measures: Sanitizing the Economic Crisis through Metaphor and Euphemism – Rosa M. López-Campillo: Political Discourse in John Tutchin: Hedges as Euphemistic and Persuasive Devices – María Muelas-Gil: The Victim or the Cause? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Cartoons Depicting PSOE’s Internal Political Crisis – María Jesús Pinar-Sanz: Offence Strategies in Political Cartoons – Isabel Negro Alousque: Attenuation and Strengthening in Road Safety Campaigns – Andrea Pizarro Pedraza: Pardon my Spanish: Attenuation of Taboo through Metapragmatic Euphemistic Formulae – Isabel López Cirugeda: ""Please, Like Me"": Coming out of the Closet in the Millennial Generation – Raquel Sánchez Ruiz: Taboo in Prison: X-phemistic Language in Orange Is the New Black – Roberto Martínez Mateo: Approaching the Translation of Dysphemistic Language: Swearwords and Offensive Terms in The Catcher in the Rye – Emilio Montero Cartelle: The Discourse-pragmatic Conditions of Sexual Interdiction in La Lozana. Masculine Sex and Escape from Vagueness

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Eliecer Crespo-Fernández, PhD in English Linguistics, is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Castile-La Mancha. His research interests include the semantics and pragmatics of euphemism and dysphemism from the frameworks of discourse analysis and cognitive semantics. He has authored five books and a number of research papers in major international journals.

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