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Publication details [#30137]

Farghal, Mohammed. 1995. Euphemism in Arabic: A Gricean interpretation. Anthropological Linguistics 37 (3) : 366–378.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

antonymy | euphemism | figurative speech | maxim of conversation | politeness

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This study on the nature of euphemism in Arabic argues that there is a close interaction between the politeness principle and Grice's maxims of conversations.