Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism

By D.J. Enright

Book Overview

Can a bomb ever be "clean"? Are we relieved to be warned that there will be an "odor" when once we were told that something would "stink"? Or, to put it another way, when is a euphemism a mark of good... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192830600
• ISBN13: 9780192830609
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.