Euphemism in Arabic: A Gricean Interpretation  

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Farghal, Mohammed

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 37 no. 3 (1995), page 366-378.
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This paper investigates the nature of euphemism in Arabic. It shows that speakers of Arabic employ four major devices for euphemizing: figurative expressions, circumlocutions, remodelings, and antonyms. The study argues that there is close interaction between the Politeness Principle (Leech 1983) and the Cooperative Principle's maxims of conversation (Grice 1975). Most importantly, it is argued that Arabic euphemisms flout one or more of the maxims of conversati1Jn, thus giving rise to Particularized Conversational Implicatures. Consequently, floutings are shown to play an important role in lexical choices in addition to their well-established roles in structural and discoursal choices.

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