Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms

Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms

The present article seeks to establish the cognitive value and the communicative message of genocide related terms with the account of the extra-linguistic factors. Terms like slaughter, massacre, ethnic cleansing, physical annihilation, killings, deportations are used to present and discuss both p...

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Main Author: Naira Gasparyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yerevan State University 2016-10-01
Series:Armenian Folia Anglistika
Subjects:
Linguocognitive
Armenian genocide
deportations
democide
synonyms
Online Access:https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4470
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spelling doaj-a18b90bdb7b34ebaab55c71fc1fec8c82021-09-24T09:11:45ZengYerevan State UniversityArmenian Folia Anglistika1829-24292579-30392016-10-01122 (16)10.46991/AFA/2016.12.2.139Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related TermsNaira Gasparyan0English Philology Department, Yerevan State University The present article seeks to establish the cognitive value and the communicative message of genocide related terms with the account of the extra-linguistic factors. Terms like slaughter, massacre, ethnic cleansing, physical annihilation, killings, deportations are used to present and discuss both pro-Turkish attitudes of and neutral or pro-Armenian standpoints of great humanists and friends of Armenians. Still another intent of ours is to show that the terms genocide and democide which realize a specifically highlighted cognitive function, are the most appropriate ones to best define the disastrous events of 1915 on the territory of West (Turkish) Armenia. https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4470LinguocognitiveArmenian genocidedeportationsdemocidesynonyms
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author Naira Gasparyan
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Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms
Armenian Folia Anglistika
Linguocognitive
Armenian genocide
deportations
democide
synonyms
author_facet Naira Gasparyan
author_sort Naira Gasparyan
title Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms
title_short Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms
title_full Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms
title_fullStr Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms
title_full_unstemmed Analysis and Interpretation of Genocide Related Terms
title_sort analysis and interpretation of genocide related terms
publisher Yerevan State University
series Armenian Folia Anglistika
issn 1829-2429
2579-3039
publishDate 2016-10-01
description The present article seeks to establish the cognitive value and the communicative message of genocide related terms with the account of the extra-linguistic factors. Terms like slaughter, massacre, ethnic cleansing, physical annihilation, killings, deportations are used to present and discuss both pro-Turkish attitudes of and neutral or pro-Armenian standpoints of great humanists and friends of Armenians. Still another intent of ours is to show that the terms genocide and democide which realize a specifically highlighted cognitive function, are the most appropriate ones to best define the disastrous events of 1915 on the territory of West (Turkish) Armenia.
topic Linguocognitive
Armenian genocide
deportations
democide
synonyms
url https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4470
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