Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 212651 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eliecer Crespo-Fernández |
| NOMBRES | Eliecer |
| APELLIDO | Crespo-Fernández |
| FIRMA | CRESPO-FERNÁNDEZ E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Castilla-La Mancha |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3156-615X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Researching sex-related anglicisms in the Spanish digital press
Anglicism is one of the linguistic resources of taboo naming. Spanish people turn to English borrowings to talk about a wide range of sex-related topics, like sexual practices, homosexuality, prostitution or pornography, to name a few. As the presence of anglicised forms in discourse is not at random, it is the purpose of this article to gain an insight into the role that pure or non-adapted anglicisms perform in the Spanish digital press and, in…
Beyond pain and sorrow
As little attention has been paid to dysphemism in death-related discourse, the goal of this study is to analyze the dysphemistic language in a sample of funeral cards, i.e., personalized keepsakes distributed at memorial or funeral services, of Nationalist Spaniards, including both combatants and civilians, who were killed in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and, by doing so, have access to the motivations and purposes underlying dysphemistic u…
The Death Taboo
In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today's Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about death and dying makes people resort to euphemism as a safe way to talk about human mortality and related matters. Following Steen's Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this study discusses the role that euphemistic metaphors play on a sample of 174 gravestone inscriptions from the English …
Provocative euphemism in pornographic film titles
Following a critical discourse-analytic approach, this study explores the role of euphemistic language in a corpus of titles of pornographic films designed for heterosexual male consumption that were nominated and awarded in the different categories of the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, also known as "Oscars of Porn", from 2015 to 2020. The analysis demonstrates that provocative euphemism contributes to the discursive representation of gender and…
Euphemism in laxative TV commercials
Despite the stigma attached to human defecation and people’s reluctance to talk about it openly, there are certain communicative situations in which one cannot evade referring to the elimination of body wastes. This is the case of laxative TV commercials, a type of discourse focused on the infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels that constitutes a breeding ground for euphemism. In this regard, following a socially-oriented approach to di…
Euphemism
Euphemism, the process whereby the taboo is stripped of its most explicit or obscene overtones, provides a way to speak about the unspeakable, that is, about those subjects that are too delicate to express in straightforward terms. Euphemism goes far beyond lexical substitution or the use of polite‐sounding language, as it helps to understand how taboo topics are conceived in cultural groups and what beliefs are accepted or rejected. Euphemism is…
Euphemism as a discursive strategy in US local and state politics
Euphemism is a discursive strategy that politicians use to approach unsettling, embarrassing, or distasteful, i.e. taboo, topics without appearing inconsiderate to people’s concerns. Following a critical discourse-analytic approach to political language, this paper discusses the communicative functions that euphemism performs in the discourse of local and state politicians from New Jersey (USA) in a sample of language data excerpted from The Star…
Eufemismo y política
lt;p>El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo los políticos británicos y españoles de ámbito local y regional utilizan el eufemismo en referencia a cuestiones delicadas. Para ello, se presenta un estudio comparativo del léxico eufemístico en una muestra extraída de los periódicos Eastern Daily Pressy La Verdad, editados en Norwich (Reino Unido) y Albacete (España) respectivamente. Los resultados demuestran que los políticos recurren al eufemi…
Words as weapons for mass persuasion
Politicians and orators employ words as weapons in order to exert ideological control and make an audience believe something in an ostensive way. In this regard, taking critical-political discourse analysis and appraisal theory as theoretical frameworks, it is the purpose of this paper to shed some light on the dysphemistic words and expressions identified in some of the memorable wartime speeches over a crucial two-year period for the outcome of…
Lexical and visual choices in the representation of immigration in the Spanish press
Our goal in this paper is to shed some light on the treatment of immigration issues in the current Spanish press via the analysis of the visual and lexical choices used in the journalistic representation of immigration. With this in mind, taking Critical Discourse Analysis and Visual Grammar as theoretical paradigms, we will explore how immigration is represented in a representative sample of multimodal texts found in newspapers from Alicante, a …
Conceptual metaphors in taboo-induced lexical variation
Taboo is deeply woven into every culture and society, which is obviously reflected in vocabulary. Indeed, taboo keeps language users from avoiding the forbidden concept and compels them to preserve or violate it, which leads to endless series of cross varietal synonyms for forbidden concepts. In this process, though metaphor stands out as a potent source for euphemistic and dysphemistic reference, the analysis of conceptual metaphor in the Lakoff…
Linguistic devices coping with death in Victorian obituaries
Given that obituaries constitute a breeding ground for the proliferation of different means of coping with death, it is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of the main linguistic devices used in a sample of Irish Victorian death notices and analyse to what extent such devices have a social purpose. In this regard, I consider the obituary as a socially oriented practice whose main function is carried out via a wide range of praising an…
Euphemism as a discursive strategy in US local and state politics
Euphemism is a discursive strategy that politicians use to approach unsettling, embarrassing, or distasteful, i.e. taboo, topics without appearing inconsiderate to people’s concerns. Following a critical discourse-analytic approach to political language, this paper discusses the communicative functions that euphemism performs in the discourse of local and state politicians from New Jersey (USA) in a sample of language data excerpted from The Star…
The Death Taboo
In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today's Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about death and dying makes people resort to euphemism as a safe way to talk about human mortality and related matters. Following Steen's Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this study discusses the role that euphemistic metaphors play on a sample of 174 gravestone inscriptions from the English …
Linguistic devices coping with death in Victorian obituaries
Given that obituaries constitute a breeding ground for the proliferation of different means of coping with death, it is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of the main linguistic devices used in a sample of Irish Victorian death notices and analyse to what extent such devices have a social purpose. In this regard, I consider the obituary as a socially oriented practice whose main function is carried out via a wide range of praising an…
Linguistic devices coping with death in Victorian obituaries
Given that obituaries constitute a breeding ground for the proliferation of different means of coping with death, it is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of the main linguistic devices used in a sample of Irish Victorian death notices and analyse to what extent such devices have a social purpose. In this regard, I consider the obituary as a socially oriented practice whose main function is carried out via a wide range of praising an…
Conceptual metaphors in taboo-induced lexical variation
Taboo is deeply woven into every culture and society, which is obviously reflected in vocabulary. Indeed, taboo keeps language users from avoiding the forbidden concept and compels them to preserve or violate it, which leads to endless series of cross varietal synonyms for forbidden concepts. In this process, though metaphor stands out as a potent source for euphemistic and dysphemistic reference, the analysis of conceptual metaphor in the Lakoff…
Lexical and visual choices in the representation of immigration in the Spanish press
Our goal in this paper is to shed some light on the treatment of immigration issues in the current Spanish press via the analysis of the visual and lexical choices used in the journalistic representation of immigration. With this in mind, taking Critical Discourse Analysis and Visual Grammar as theoretical paradigms, we will explore how immigration is represented in a representative sample of multimodal texts found in newspapers from Alicante, a …
Words as weapons for mass persuasion
Politicians and orators employ words as weapons in order to exert ideological control and make an audience believe something in an ostensive way. In this regard, taking critical-political discourse analysis and appraisal theory as theoretical frameworks, it is the purpose of this paper to shed some light on the dysphemistic words and expressions identified in some of the memorable wartime speeches over a crucial two-year period for the outcome of…
Eufemismo y política
lt;p>El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo los políticos británicos y españoles de ámbito local y regional utilizan el eufemismo en referencia a cuestiones delicadas. Para ello, se presenta un estudio comparativo del léxico eufemístico en una muestra extraída de los periódicos Eastern Daily Pressy La Verdad, editados en Norwich (Reino Unido) y Albacete (España) respectivamente. Los resultados demuestran que los políticos recurren al eufemi…
Euphemism as a discursive strategy in US local and state politics
Euphemism is a discursive strategy that politicians use to approach unsettling, embarrassing, or distasteful, i.e. taboo, topics without appearing inconsiderate to people’s concerns. Following a critical discourse-analytic approach to political language, this paper discusses the communicative functions that euphemism performs in the discourse of local and state politicians from New Jersey (USA) in a sample of language data excerpted from The Star…
Euphemism
Euphemism, the process whereby the taboo is stripped of its most explicit or obscene overtones, provides a way to speak about the unspeakable, that is, about those subjects that are too delicate to express in straightforward terms. Euphemism goes far beyond lexical substitution or the use of polite‐sounding language, as it helps to understand how taboo topics are conceived in cultural groups and what beliefs are accepted or rejected. Euphemism is…
Euphemism in laxative TV commercials
Despite the stigma attached to human defecation and people’s reluctance to talk about it openly, there are certain communicative situations in which one cannot evade referring to the elimination of body wastes. This is the case of laxative TV commercials, a type of discourse focused on the infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels that constitutes a breeding ground for euphemism. In this regard, following a socially-oriented approach to di…
The Death Taboo
In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today's Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about death and dying makes people resort to euphemism as a safe way to talk about human mortality and related matters. Following Steen's Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this study discusses the role that euphemistic metaphors play on a sample of 174 gravestone inscriptions from the English …
Provocative euphemism in pornographic film titles
Following a critical discourse-analytic approach, this study explores the role of euphemistic language in a corpus of titles of pornographic films designed for heterosexual male consumption that were nominated and awarded in the different categories of the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, also known as "Oscars of Porn", from 2015 to 2020. The analysis demonstrates that provocative euphemism contributes to the discursive representation of gender and…
Beyond pain and sorrow
As little attention has been paid to dysphemism in death-related discourse, the goal of this study is to analyze the dysphemistic language in a sample of funeral cards, i.e., personalized keepsakes distributed at memorial or funeral services, of Nationalist Spaniards, including both combatants and civilians, who were killed in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and, by doing so, have access to the motivations and purposes underlying dysphemistic u…
Researching sex-related anglicisms in the Spanish digital press
Anglicism is one of the linguistic resources of taboo naming. Spanish people turn to English borrowings to talk about a wide range of sex-related topics, like sexual practices, homosexuality, prostitution or pornography, to name a few. As the presence of anglicised forms in discourse is not at random, it is the purpose of this article to gain an insight into the role that pure or non-adapted anglicisms perform in the Spanish digital press and, in…
Linguistics (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (8 obras) · Euphemism (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 obras) · Metaphor (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)