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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.
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.
Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in
Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and
(critical) discourse-related issues with the intent of widening the
field of study of taboo in communication. This volume explores the
complex interplay between taboo and language in a range of social
contexts, cultural settings and real-world discourse types: from
political speeches to television series through cartoons, novels,
oral interviews or official advertisements. Through a selection of
empirical studies anchored in analyses of authentic and
contextualized language data, this book examines the communicative
functions of the different categories of taboo naming, from
euphemism (attenuation) to dysphemism (offence). By bringing
together contrasting (yet complementary) examples of taboo-related
research, this volume yields insights into the way taboo emerges in
discourse and allows to have access to attitudes, stereotypes and
value judgments regarding taboo which are more or less implicitly
communicated in the public sphere.
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