Eufemismo y política: Un estudio comparativo del discurso político local británico y español
It is the aim of this paper to analyse the way language is used to deal with unpleasant topics in the discourse of British and Spanish local and regional politicians. With this in mind, this paper presents a comparative study of the evasive vocabulary found in a sample of the local newspapers Easter...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/42395 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://revistas.uca.es/index.php/pragma/article/view/2436 https://hdl.handle.net/10578/42395 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cortesía verbal Courtoise verbale Discours politique Discurso político Eufemismo Euphemism Euphémisme Face Image Imagen Metáfora Metaphor Métaphore Politeness Political discourse |
| Sumario: | It is the aim of this paper to analyse the way language is used to deal with unpleasant topics in the discourse of British and Spanish local and regional politicians. With this in mind, this paper presents a comparative study of the evasive vocabulary found in a sample of the local newspapers Eastern Daily Press and La Verdad, edited in Norwich (UK) and Albacete (Spain). The analysis reveals that euphemism is a strategy of self-protection and positive self-presentation for British and Spanish politicians, who employ euphemism to conceal unsettling topics from public opinion; to avoid expressions that can be perceived to marginalize socially disadvantaged groups; and to criticise their political opponents in a socially acceptable way. In both subcorpora such resources as understatement, litotes and periphrasis rank the most frequent mitigating resources. Although not relevant in quantitative terms, metaphor plays an important role as a facesaving device. |
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