Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet DYSPHEMISM

Definition av DYSPHEMISM

1. dysfemism

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• A dysphemism is an expression with connotations that are derogatory either about the subject matter or to the audience.
• The term "Rust Belt" is a dysphemism to describe industry that has "rusted out", usually referring to the impact of deindustrialization, economic decline, population loss, and urban decay on these regions attributable to the shrinking industrial sector especially including steelmaking, automobile manufacturing, and coal mining.
• One of the more popular older views was to see in the "abomination" a contemptuous deformation (or dysphemism) of the Phoenician deity Baalshamin "Lord of Heaven"; Philo of Byblos identified Baalshamin with the Greek sky god Zeus, and as the temple in Jerusalem was rededicated in honour of Zeus (according to 2 Maccabees 6:2), older commentators tended to follow Porphyry in seeing the "abomination" in terms of a statue of the Greek sky god.
• Paradiastole has been described as "the rhetorical technique of evaluative redescription -- more popularly known as euphemism and dysphemism -- designed to enlarge or reduce the moral significance of something".
• Nevertheless, the word has increasingly become less of a pejorative and more publicly acceptable, an example of the "dysphemism treadmill" or semantic drift known as melioration, wherein former pejoratives become inoffensive and commonplace.
• The libel was a "Monstrosity of libelous slander, dysphemism and insinuations", and Louis Henry also published his correspondence with Margareta in order to prove her broken vows of marriage to him: there was however no proof that she had accepted his proposal, only that she had avoided to answer and encouraged him without saying yes.

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