dysphemism

A common way of addressing taboos is through euphemism and dysphemism. Euphemism is defined in terms of politeness as "sweet talking" (Allan and Burridge 2006, 1) or "the process whereby the taboo is stripped of its most explicit or obscene overtones" (Crespo-Fernandez 2015, 2).

Scholars of philology, philosophy, communication, and other disciplines adopt cognitive frameworks to reconsider taboo-related phenomena such as taboo concepts and words, euphemisms, dysphemism, insults, or political correctness.

Burridge (1991) Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon.

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Finally, light is shed on the ways in which discerning medieval literary critics anticipated significant modern sociolinguistic observations: the relations between euphemism, orthophemism, and dysphemism, in addition to the incessant process of euphemism degradation.

Even celebrity chefs have become critics, with perhaps the prime example being Jamie Oliver, who once poured ammonia on beef trimmings in order to illustrate--in, I might add, a rather erroneous way--the production of Finely Textured Lean Beef, which is commonly known under its dysphemism, "Pink Slime" ("Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Pink Slime," 2011).

In this process, an initially neutral term (an orthophemism) gradually takes on negative connotations through its use as an insult and thereby becomes a malicious term (a dysphemism).

For example, a tendency for dysphemism is found markedly at work in Daisy Miller, which signifies the replacement of an easygoing and gratifying expression for an insensitive one such as 'grave' for crucial, 'unprotected' for daring, 'uncultivated' for ingenuous, 'spindle shanks' for knees, 'vivacious' for attractive, and 'coquette' for bold and frank, etc.

Euphemism and Dysphemism, Language Used as Shield and Weapon.