Title
Euphemisms in English and Serbian public discourse
Creator
Radulović, Milica 1973-
Copyright date
2016
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Autorstvo-Nekomercijalno-Bez prerade 3.0 Srbija (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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Language
English
Cobiss-ID
Theses Type
Doktorska disertacija
description
Datum odbrane: 03.08.2016.
Other responsibilities
mentor
Mišić Ilić, Biljana 1962-
član komisije
Vidanović, Đorđe
član komisije
Jovanović, Vladimir 1968-
član komisije
Mišković Luković, Mirjana 1964-
član komisije
Vukić, Maja 1973-
Academic Expertise
Društveno-humanističke nauke
University
Univerzitet u Nišu
Faculty
Filozofski fakultet
Group
Departman za anglistiku
Alternative title
Eufemizmi u javnom diskursu na engleskom i srpskom jeziku
Publisher
[M. Radulović]
Format
292, 5 lista
description
Autorova biografija: list 292
description
Humanities, Linguistics
Abstract (en)
The topic of the thesis is the analysis of the use of concealing euphemisms (Luchtenberg 1985: 24) in English and Serbian public discourse. Concealing euphemisms reduce the negative expressive force of the utterance/sentence, avoid dispreferred and impose preferred constructions of reality. The thesis shows that it is possible to expose a concealing euphemism by identifying a non-euphemistic alternative that can be used in the same context. In relation to this, the main aim of thesis is to show that the recognition of concealing euphemisms includes both the structural (lexico-semantic) and the interpersonal (lexico-pragmatic, epistemic and discursive) levels of analysis. The theoretical background that unifies all the levels of analysis is relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995 et al.). We use the corpus-assisted qualitative analysis; the corpus is based on American, British and Serbian concealing euphemisms taken from political speeches and newspaper articles. The analysis includes the lexicosemantic analysis, the lexico-pragmatic analysis and the analysis of discursive strategies. The results of the lexico-semantic analysis show that, in political speeches, rhetorical effects are preferred, and newspaper articles strive for more precision. The lexico-pragmatic analysis is based on the proposed pragmatic algorithm which shows that an epistemically vigilant hearer can identify a concealing euphemism by analyzing interpretive hypotheses in accordance with the information given in a specific context and type of discourse. Concealing euphemisms are also viewed as discursive strategies (Van Leeuwen 2008: 23–74). The examples of the analyzed strategies were found in all corpora; they show that the issue of responsibility and even the issue of morality of actions can be ignored. The thesis integrates cognitive, communicative, epistemic and social aspects of verbal manipulation, by means of which we provide an account of meaning construction that can be used in the interpretative stage of critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1989 et al.), which studies representations of the world taken as common knowledge, which are actually socially instilled beliefs reproduced and perpetuated in language.
Authors Key words
Concealing euphemism, non-euphemistic equivalent, political
speeches, newspaper articles, relevance theory, lexico-semantic
analysis, lexico-pragmatic analysis, pragmatic algorithm, epistemic
vigilance, discursive strategies, interpretive stage of critical discourse
analysis
Authors Key words
Eufemizam skrivanja, ne-eufemistični ekvivalent, politički
govori, novinski članci, teorija relevancije, leksičko-
semantička analiza, leksičko-pragmatička analiza, pragmatički
algoritam, epistemička budnost, diskurzivne strategije,
interpretativna faza kritičke analize diskursa
Classification
811.163.41:811.111'373.49(043.3)
Subject
811.163.41:811.111'42(043.3)
Subject
H 350
Type
Tekst
Abstract (en)
The topic of the thesis is the analysis of the use of concealing euphemisms (Luchtenberg 1985: 24) in English and Serbian public discourse. Concealing euphemisms reduce the negative expressive force of the utterance/sentence, avoid dispreferred and impose preferred constructions of reality. The thesis shows that it is possible to expose a concealing euphemism by identifying a non-euphemistic alternative that can be used in the same context. In relation to this, the main aim of thesis is to show that the recognition of concealing euphemisms includes both the structural (lexico-semantic) and the interpersonal (lexico-pragmatic, epistemic and discursive) levels of analysis. The theoretical background that unifies all the levels of analysis is relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995 et al.). We use the corpus-assisted qualitative analysis; the corpus is based on American, British and Serbian concealing euphemisms taken from political speeches and newspaper articles. The analysis includes the lexicosemantic analysis, the lexico-pragmatic analysis and the analysis of discursive strategies. The results of the lexico-semantic analysis show that, in political speeches, rhetorical effects are preferred, and newspaper articles strive for more precision. The lexico-pragmatic analysis is based on the proposed pragmatic algorithm which shows that an epistemically vigilant hearer can identify a concealing euphemism by analyzing interpretive hypotheses in accordance with the information given in a specific context and type of discourse. Concealing euphemisms are also viewed as discursive strategies (Van Leeuwen 2008: 23–74). The examples of the analyzed strategies were found in all corpora; they show that the issue of responsibility and even the issue of morality of actions can be ignored. The thesis integrates cognitive, communicative, epistemic and social aspects of verbal manipulation, by means of which we provide an account of meaning construction that can be used in the interpretative stage of critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1989 et al.), which studies representations of the world taken as common knowledge, which are actually socially instilled beliefs reproduced and perpetuated in language.
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