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- Title
A Cognitive Approach to Grammatical Mechanism in English Euphemism.
- Authors
Yu Li
- Abstract
Euphemism is a common linguistic phenomenon. A short introduction to euphemism in English and Chinese will benefit our future intercultural communication. Three grammatical approaches in English euphemism were analyzed in light of cognitive grammar: negation, postmodification and aspect. Thanks to negation, profile and base are changed, resulting in the prominence of "NOT" and the shift of cognitive reference point. Postmodification makes the head noun the trajector in a relational profile, hence reducing the prominence of the modifier. Aspects help to turn a bounded scene into an unbounded one and hence change the cognitive focus. These will be benefit for human's communication.
- Subjects
ENGLISH euphemisms; COGNITIVE grammar; ENGLISH language; CHINESE language; ASPECT (Grammar)
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 4, p817
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/jltr.0804.23