Naslov
Conceptual Metonymy as a Cognitive Mechanism Underlying Euphemisms for War

Autori
Moritz, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
1st CELLTTS, First International Conference on Englsih Language, Literature, Teaching and Translation Studies, Word, Context, Time, Sarajevo, 18 - 19 September 2015, Proceedings / Osmankadić, Merima ; Ćirić-Fazlija, Ifeta ; Kalajdžisalihović, Nejla - Sarajevo : Dobra Knjiga, 2017, 135-148

ISBN
987-9958-27-363-6

Skup
1st CELLTTS, First Internationl Conference on English Language, Literature, teaching and Translation Studies

Mjesto i datum
Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina, 18.09.2015. - 19.09.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
cognitive and communicative principles, coneptual metonymy, euphemism, political discourse, reframing, war

Sažetak
Euphemisms are an integral part of political discourse, and politicians tend to euphemize numerous topics for different reasons. This paper attempts to identify euphemisms for war and conceptual metonymies underlying their formation in war speeches of G.W. Bush and B. Obama. Euphemisms for war have been extracted from speech transcripts and grouped according to conceptual metonymies underlying their formation. Considering their different political and presidential ideologies and different views on wars waged during their respective presidential terms, the paper attempts to determine whether the two American presidents use different conceptual metonymies as cognitive mechanisms for euphemizing the topic war, and whether the purposes of euphemization of the topic war are: reframing (changing listeners’ conceptual frames in Lakoff’s (2004) terms), saving their own faces, politeness or something different.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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