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Political Euphemisms of Lexico-Semantic Group “Terrorism” in Mass Media
- Authors: Perfilieva NV1, Nikishina DV1
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- People’s Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: No 2 (2013)
- Pages: 95-103
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7362
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The article investigates the question of eupheminisation treating the semantic aspect of the term, giving the etymology of the term “ euphemism ”, elaborating principle classifications both Russian and English euphemisms. On the terms of the lexico-semantic group terrorism there’s been carried out a comparative study of euphemisms in Russian and English mass media sources.
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N V Perfilieva
People’s Friendship University of Russia
Email: kaf_yazik_rudn@mail.ru
The General and Russian Linguistics Department Philological Faculty
D V Nikishina
People’s Friendship University of Russia
Email: kaf_yazik_rudn@mail.ru
The General and Russian Linguistics Department Philological Faculty
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