Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2019)

Analysis of Japanese Euphemisms from the Perspective of Metonymy

Authors
Yaping Zhang
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Yaping Zhang
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/iserss-19.2019.131How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Japanese, Euphemism, taboo words, metonymy
Abstract

This paper probes into the formation mechanism of euphemism in Japanese referring to metonymy cognitive model. And the result shows that metonymy is an important way to generate Japanese euphemism. In the process of euphemism replacing taboos, the correlation between the source domain (euphemism) and the target domain (taboo) is the key factor. People apply this correlation to language expression; replacing direct, vulgar claims with indirect, implicit expressions. There are many researches from the traditional semantics and pragmatics. However, this paper makes a further analysis of Japanese euphemism from the perspective of metonymy cognition.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-736-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iserss-19.2019.131How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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