Euphemism: Prosodic Organization of Conceptual Components

Death Euphemism in English and Arabic: A Conceptual Metaphorization Approach

This study investigates and compares the conceptualization of death euphemism in English and Arabic as embodied in various euphemistic metaphors using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory initiated by Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 2003). It has been found, based on 442 euphemistic expressions in both languages (192 from Arabic, and 250 from English) that both languages use 10 strikingly similar complex c...

The Prosodic (Re)organization of Determiners

Researchers have long known that children variably produce grammatical morphemes in spontaneous speech (e.g., Brown, 1973). Thus, a given child on a given day may supply a determiner (such as the article a or the) or a tense morpheme (such as the past tense marker –t/d) in some utterances but not in others. This has typically led researchers to propose that children’s syntactic representations ...

Skaplonking: Neologism and Euphemism for Plagiarism

“Special needs” is an ineffective euphemism

Although euphemisms are intended to put a more positive spin on the words they replace, some euphemisms are ineffective. Our study examined the effectiveness of a popular euphemism for persons with disabilities, special needs. Most style guides prescribe against using the euphemism special needs and recommend instead using the non-euphemized term disability; disability advocates argue adamantly...

Conceptual Model for Integration of COTS Components

Several aspects of Commercial Off-The-Self (COTS) component integration are being discussed in the literature as challenges to utilizing COTS components in software development. Among these issues are interface matching, inter-component communications, functional matching, and integration testing. This paper highlights potential problems and risks associated with integrating COTS components, ev...