Softboiled Speech: A Contrastive Analysis of Death Euphemisms in Egyptian Arabic and Chinese

Dr. Yasser A. Gomaa
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Abstract

This contrastive study is geared towards investigating the euphemistic language of death in Egyptian Arabic and Chinese. The results indicate that euphemisms are universal since they exist in every language and no human communication is without euphemisms. Both Egyptian and Chinese native speakers regard the topic of death as a taboo. Therefore, they handle it with care. Egyptian Arabic and Chinese employ euphemistic expressions to avoid mentioning the topic of death. However, Chinese has a large number of death euphemisms as compared with the Egyptian Arabic ones. The results also show that death euphemisms are structurally and basically employed in both Egyptian Arabic and Chinese in metonymy as a linguistic device and a figure of speech. Moreover, they employ conceptual metaphor to substitute the taboo topic of death.

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Dr. Yasser A. Gomaa, willa504. 1970. "Softboiled Speech: A Contrastive Analysis of Death Euphemisms in Egyptian Arabic and Chinese". Global Journal of Human-Social Science GJHSS Volume 12 (GJHSS Volume 12 Issue 8).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

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Keywords
Chineseconceptual metaphorContrastive analysisdeathEgyptian Arabiceuphemismsmetonymytaboos
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  • Submission ReceivedApril 8, 2012
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  • Accepted April 30, 2012
  • Published May 15, 2012
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Softboiled Speech: A Contrastive Analysis of Death Euphemisms in Egyptian Arabic and Chinese

Dr. Gomaa
Dr. Gomaa Assiut University, Egypt & Zhejiang Ocean University, China.
Dr. Gomaa
Dr. Gomaa
  • Submission ReceivedApril 8, 2012
  • Peer Review Double Blind
    Handling Editor
  • Accepted April 30, 2012
  • Published May 15, 2012