in this paper, by analyzing some data from persian andenglish, it is shown thatpragmatically there are two main kinds of euphemisms.the first (common euphemisms) are used to be polite and not to hurt other'sfeelings on several subjects like sexual relations, death, birth, body parts,disability, mental illness, intelligence and insults. on the other hand,language users by substituting the f...

This paper presents results of a consumer health vocabulary study of text appearing on Web-based bulletin boards. Consumers used obscenities and euphemisms to refer to certain body parts, functions, and behaviors. The female genitalia are the body region most often described with an obscenity (29% of all instances); male genitalia, in contrast, were rendered as obscene only 3% of the time. Cons...

TheRussian style of formulatingmathematical problemsmeans that nobody will be able to simplify your formulation as opposed to the French style which means that nobody will be able to generalize it,—Vladimir Arnold.

Participants read aloud swear words, euphemisms of the swear words, and neutral stimuli while their autonomic activity was measured by electrodermal activity. The key finding was that autonomic responses to swear words were larger than to euphemisms and neutral stimuli. It is argued that the heightened response to swear words reflects a form of verbal conditioning in which the phonological form...

The problem of adequate presentation English counterparts Russian phraseological euphemisms in the “Russian-English Dictionary Phraseological Euphemisms”, which is first bilingual dictionary euphemistic units both languages presented. Saving significational-denotational component meaning while translating them into crucial. subject possible ways transmitting non-equivalent transferred units' se...

Goldilocks, in the course of her serial porridge-tasting, had a pretty precise concept of which porridge was going to be acceptable to her palate. The criteria were her own, based on her own experience, and which may or may not be straightforwardly communicated and easily comparable to the tastes and needs of other porridge afficionados. Moving to the less fairytale-like world of science, RNA q...

This experiment investigated how the esthetic judgment of human body and face modulates cognitive and affective processes. We hypothesized that judgments on ugliness and beauty would elicit separable event-related brain potentials (ERP) patterns, depending on the esthetic value of body and faces in both genders. In a pretest session, participants evaluated images in a range from very ugly to ve...

There are many lexical studies on euphemisms and general studies, there is currently a lack of research in context. relevant articles based for chronological studies. This article examines English through comparisons focuses the influence different cultures generations euphemisms. The explains fundamental logic change development culture Western countries emphasizes personality development, whi...