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Euphemism as a Communicative Tool: A Descriptive Study of Hijazi and Southern Region Dialects Spoken in Saudi Arabia
2018
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
To communicate with other people, a person has to select the appropriate words as well as the appropriate speech strategy. One of the strategies is euphemism which is used to minimize any face threatening. The aim of this paper is to shed light on how people use euphemism while communicating with each other. Two Saudi regional dialects were selected to be described on how speakers use euphemism to communicate to talk about death, sex, body parts and bodily functions. The description of the two
doi:10.4236/ojml.2018.81001
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