Author(s)

Qiang Yali ¹, Chen Qingxia ¹, Guo Can ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guangdong University of Science & Technology, Dongguan, 523083, China

Corresponding Author

Qiang Yali

ABSTRACT

The paper exploresdistance iconicity in English euphemismfrom the perspective of cognitive linguistics. It covers introduction,syntactic iconicity,English euphemism, distance iconicity andconclusion.From the study.itcan be seen that the smaller social distance between speaker and listener it has, the less linguistic units, the less information and the less euphemistic it is. Conversely, the bigger social distance between speaker and listener, the more linguistic units it is, the more information and the more euphemistic it has.

KEYWORDS

Distance Iconicity, Syntactic Iconicity, English Euphemism

CITE THIS PAPER

Qiang Yali, Chen Qingxia, Guo Can, A Study on Distance Iconicity in English Euphemism. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2022) Vol. 5: 9-13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2022.050403.

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