Euphemism and Language Change: The Sixth and Seventh Ages
No matter which human group we look at, past or present, euphemism and its counterpart dysphemism are powerful forces and they are extremely important for the study of language change. They provide an emotive trigger for word addition, word loss, phonological distortion and semantic shift. Word tabo...
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Lexis
2016
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