EUPHEMISTIC NAMES OF PROFESSIONS IN ENGLISH AND POLISH

• Authors: Luczkowska Adriana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

One reaches for euphemism whenever s/he wants to avoid unpleasant word or topic. This is our shield against everything that is, in our view, bad and may hurt our interlocutor or us. We just try to improve imperfect world around us. Hence it is not surprising that our grey professional life should be coloured a little. The best way to do it, without going on strike, is to create unusual names for our professions. This paper focuses on euphemistic names of professions in English and Polish giving some interesting examples and showing ways of coining them.

Keywords

EN

COINAGE; EUPHEMISM; NAMES OF PROFESSIONS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Linguistica Silesiana
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 29
• Pages: 109-118
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Luczkowska Adriana

• Adriana Luczkowska, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA064510