Tatiana Golubeva
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tatiana Golubeva is involved.
Articles
2025 Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions: A relevance-theoretic perspective Pragmatics 35:4, pp. 504–528 | Article
This qualitative research is the first attempt to analyse differences in the interpretation of politically correct (PC) expressions by using relevance-theoretic and lexical pragmatics tools. The results suggest that PC language can be non-euphemistic and euphemism-based. Non-euphemistic PC… read more
2023 The proper names ‘Assad’, ‘ISIL’, ‘ISIS’, ‘Daesh’ and ‘European’ as metonymic blends in political discourse Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 115–139 | Article
The study investigated metonymic uses of the anthroponym ‘Assad’, the acronyms ‘ISIL’, ‘ISIS’, ‘Daesh’ and the toponymic adjective ‘European’ from a blending theory perspective. The corpus comprised British and American politicians’ speeches covering such topics as the activity of Syrian… read more
2023 Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse: A relevance-theoretic perspective Pragmatics and Society 14:4, pp. 593–610 | Article
This qualitative research explores the differences in the interpretation of novel veiling and concealing euphemisms from a relevance-theoretic perspective. I argue that the relevance of an utterance containing a novel veiling euphemism is established (1) via the adjustment of its linguistically… read more