Euphemism: Sweet Talking or Deception?
The aim of this paper is to shed light on euphemism in two different senses: sweet talking and deception. I shall treat euphemism from two different perspectives: the usual use of euphemism, sweet talking, in which it is used to maintain one's face and the orthophemistic sense, deception, where...
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Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska
2007
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-2899 |