Taboo in Discourse

Eliecer Crespo-Fernández: Introduction. Taboo in Discourse: An Overview - Gérard Fernández Smith/Miguel Casas Gómez: From Lexicon to Discourse in the Linguistic Expression of Taboo: Configuring New Social Realities - María José Hellín-García: Politically Tabooed Measures: Sanitizing the Economic Crisis through Metaphor and Euphemism - Rosa M. López-Campillo: Political Discourse in John Tutchin: Hedges as Euphemistic and Persuasive Devices - María Muelas-Gil: The Victim or the Cause? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Cartoons Depicting PSOE's Internal Political Crisis - María Jesús Pinar-Sanz: Offence Strategies in Political Cartoons - Isabel Negro Alousque: Attenuation and Strengthening in Road Safety Campaigns - Andrea Pizarro Pedraza: Pardon my Spanish: Attenuation of Taboo through Metapragmatic Euphemistic Formulae - Isabel López Cirugeda: "Please, Like Me": Coming out of the Closet in the Millennial Generation - Raquel Sánchez Ruiz: Taboo in Prison: X-phemistic Language in Orange Is the New Black - Roberto Martínez Mateo: Approaching the Translation of Dysphemistic Language: Swearwords and Offensive Terms in The Catcher in the Rye - Emilio Montero Cartelle: The Discourse-pragmatic Conditions of Sexual Interdiction in La Lozana. Masculine Sex and Escape from Vagueness

Eliecer Crespo-Fernández, PhD in English Linguistics, is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Castile-La Mancha. His research interests include the semantics and pragmatics of euphemism and dysphemism from the frameworks of discourse analysis and cognitive semantics. He has authored five books and a number of research papers in major international journals.