Abstract This study aims to explore the use of euphemistic strategies by Algerians and Americans when dealing with three unpleasant topics: death, lying, disease. It also examines effect degree formality on strategies. To achieve this objective, a discourse completion task (DCT) was distributed 21 Americans. The data were analysed using SPSS. analysis revealed that there are some differences si...

In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today’s Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about dying makes people resort euphemism as safe way human mortality related matters. Following Steen’s Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this study discusses role euphemistic metaphors play on sample 174 gravestone inscriptions from Englis...

ABSTRACT Some of the bawdy details Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales continue to pose challenges translators, who must find renderings that are both descriptively and stylistically adequate. The Miller’s Tale provides an illustrative case study, in which drunken narrator describes Nicholas’s rather physical wooing carpenter’s wife Alisoun graphic detail. Existing translations key term queynte range fr...

The mass media tends to use euphemisms in political news narratives. euphemistic was chosen by the editor avoid controversy due broadcast of a material. This research aims discuss types narrative on Tempo articles (December 2022-January 2023). Political euphemism is seen through van Dijk's paradigm which focuses local semantics and lexicon, especially how leaders tend this style language as lin...