Kireeva E.Z. EUPHEMISM AS A SPEECH ACT (ILLUSTRATED BY TEXTS OF REGION LAWS)
Kireeva Elena Zakirovna
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Documentation and Stylistics of the Russian Language, Tula State Pedagogical University named after Lev Tolstoy ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Abstract: the author reveals peculiarities of euphemism functioning in a document text and offers the structure of its semantic description. The article dwells on intentions of a corporate author of a document and the way of their representing by means of euphemisms of different levels of the language system. The structure of the euphemism semantic description as a speech act is put forward.
Key words: euphemism, speech act, pragmatics, postulate of communication, document text.
EUPHEMISM AS A SPEECH ACT (ILLUSTRATED BY TEXTS OF REGION LAWS) by Kireeva E.Z. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.