{"product_id":"sex-in-language-euphemistic-and-dysphemistic-metaphors-in-internet-forums-paperback","title":"Sex in Language: Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in Internet forums - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEliecer Crespo-Fernández\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a bridge that brings together mind and language. It does this through the analysis of the antithetical mechanisms of \u003ci\u003everbal mitigation \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eoffence\u003c\/i\u003e. These two mechanisms are (more commonly know as) euphemism and (its lesser known companion term) dysphemism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume reflects on the social and communicative functions that sexual metaphors perform in a sample of almost two hundred postings taken from internet forums. How do people think about sex? How do people avoid talking about sex? How do people paraphrase sexual topics? It offers an account of how real language users understand sexual taboo in present-day English and also a great grounding in manual corpus work on a qualitative level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEliecer Crespo-Fernandez\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 23, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47327469043961,"sku":"9781350024267","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/aqXhNhCC039781350024267.webp?v=1769581035","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sex-in-language-euphemistic-and-dysphemistic-metaphors-in-internet-forums-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}