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Publication details [#49455]
McGlone, Matthew S., Gary A. Beck and R. Abigail Pfiester. 2006. Contamination and Camouflage in Euphemisms. Communication Monographs 73 (3) : 261–282. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
The findings of this study on euphemisms and their possible 'contamination' by association with negative referents, contradict the associative contamination hypothesis and support the camouflage hypothesis.