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Linguocultural and Conceptual Parameters of Euphemism in the Modern Italian Language
- Authors: Porokhnitskaya L.V.1, Mischenko E.Y.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 12(906) (2025)
- Pages: 102-112
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/365480
- ID: 365480
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Abstract
The aim of the work is to identify and describe the linguistic parameters of euphemization, as well as to reconstruct conceptual models in the semantics of differently structured euphemistic units that are used in modern Italian to nominate a number of taboo concepts. The methods of conceptual analysis, the hypothetical-deductive method, the method of definitional analysis, and the method of cultural interpretation of units are used. It is shown that within the traditional fields of euphemistic nomination, metaphorical models should be recognized as the leading conceptual models, while metonymic concepts are the most active in modern politically correct fields.
About the authors
Lydia Vasilievna Porokhnitskaya
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: lidie@list.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Associate Professor, Professor at the Department of English Lexicology, Faculty of English
Russian FederationElizaveta Yurievna Mischenko
Moscow State Linguistic University
Email: misch.liz@mail.ru
Lecturer at the Department of English Lexicology, Faculty of English
Russian FederationReferences
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