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 of verbal mitigation and
offence. 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.
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