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EUPHEMISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
EUPHEMISM. In RHETORIC...urinate. Official euphemisms can be circuitous...generally severe on euphemism. Ronald Ridout...A Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk...where we keep the euphemism?’ See...
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Metaphors and Euphemisms
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Metaphors and Euphemisms Twenty-first...of metaphor and euphemism when describing...the other hand, euphemism has a long tradition...Distinctive metaphors and euphemisms have emerged from...bagged." The euphemisms extend to those...euthanasia" is a euphemism for murder. For...
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Propaganda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
...educate. Americans have employed numerous euphemisms for their propaganda in order to distinguish...alike. Increasingly, they turned to euphemisms like "international communication...spawned as many definitions as it has euphemisms. Harold Lass well, a pioneer of propaganda...
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Dying, Process of
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...directors, the literal usage of the term "dying" gave way to euphemisms such as "expire," "pass away," or "go to one's reward...abrasive — terminal illness is the preferred clinical euphemism, connoting an aggregation of symptoms rather than a real...
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Political Correctness
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...movements was the adoption and diffusion of neologisms and euphemisms aimed at enfranchising such groups, the semantics of tolerance...American Indian , Roma for Gypsy , or Inuit for Eskimo ); or euphemisms (such as differently abled for disabled , or educationally...
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DOUBLESPEAK
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...limits thought. Doublespeak can be discussed in terms of euphemism, bureaucratese, JARGON , and inflated language. In 1984...world it would no longer use the word killing but instead the euphemism unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of life . When asked why...
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GENTEELISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...a word or phrase used for genteel reasons: for example, the substitution of tummy for belly . Genteelisms are generally EUPHEMISMS used for evasive ‘polite’ purposes, such as bathroom , lavatory , powder room , restroom , toilet for...
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Pseudoscience and Quackery
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...alternative medicine, and in 1992 Congress created an Office of Alternative Medicine in the National Institutes of Health . No such euphemisms replaced “pseudoscience,” which, if anything, increased in usage during the late twentieth century...
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Mutiny
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...candor that is usually associated with mutinous incidents. Thus, actions that are, in fact, mutinies, are often cloaked in euphemisms: during the Vietnam War , the U.S. Army referred to its mutinies as “battlefield refusals,” a rhetorical...
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-ISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...linguistic and stylistic terms: anachronism , aphorism , archaism , barbarism , classicism , colloquialism , dysphemism , euphemism initialism , malapropism , neologism , regionalism , solecism , syllogism , truism , verbalism , witticism . (3) Forming...
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