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@article{1482696, author = {Chovanec, Jan}, article_location = {Amsterdam}, article_number = {JUN 2019}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2019.04.001}, keywords = {pragmatics; proximization; distanciation; euphemism; political discourse; war rhetoric; taboo; manipulation}, language = {eng}, issn = {0024-3841}, journal = {Lingua}, title = {Euphemisms and non-proximal manipulation of discourse space : The case of blue-on-blue}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384119300014}, volume = {225}, year = {2019} }
TY - JOUR ID - 1482696 AU - Chovanec, Jan PY - 2019 TI - Euphemisms and non-proximal manipulation of discourse space : The case of blue-on-blue JF - Lingua VL - 225 IS - JUN 2019 SP - 50-62 EP - 50-62 PB - Elsevier SN - 00243841 KW - pragmatics KW - proximization KW - distanciation KW - euphemism KW - political discourse KW - war rhetoric KW - taboo KW - manipulation UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384119300014 L2 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384119300014 N2 - This article provides a pragmatic interpretation of the effects of euphemistic lexical choices made in public discourse in reference to taboo topics. It contributes to the cognitive pragmatic theory of proximization by considering how euphemisms weaken the potentially negative effect of specific linguistic representations or -- more broadly -- conceptualizations of forbidden reality, on the recipients. Doing so, such expressions extend the discourse space between the unpleasant phenomenon and the recipients’ deictic centre. Focusing on the military euphemism blue-on-blue and its use in various media, the paper interprets this expression as a strategy of discursive distanciation from the unwelcome consequences of military action. The data indicate that distanciation involves several levels of grammatical and structural transformations that obliterate the potentially negative impact by veiling the congruent, i.e. the most direct, verbalization of the event with an increasingly complex series of semantically opaque realizations. ER -
CHOVANEC, Jan. Euphemisms and non-proximal manipulation of discourse space : The case of blue-on-blue. \textit{Lingua}. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2019, roč.~225, JUN 2019, s.~50-62. ISSN~0024-3841. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2019.04.001.
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