Metonymy as a grounding of euphemistic substitution: lingo-cognitive aspect (case study of the present-day English literary discourse)

Марина Олександрівна Бєлова H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University

Keywords: category, cognitive metonymy, domain, euphemism, idealized cognitive model

Abstract

The main concern of this paper is to explore the role of one of the major construal operations – metonymy – in the formation of euphemistic substitutes functioning in the present-day English literary discourse. What emerges from the research is that the grounding of euphemisms functioning in the present-day English literary discourse is metonymic shift between primary and derivatory concepts of euphemistic conceptualization within one cognitive structure – frame, domain, category or idealized cognitive model.

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