11120086 - Anglais linguistique 5

Niveau de diplôme
Crédits ECTS 4
Volume horaire total 21
Volume horaire CM 21

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TABOO LANGUAGE AND EUPHEMISM
The notions of “taboo language” and “euphemism” will be studied in this seminar.
Each student will have to choose one topic (“Research paper”), prepare a presentation in English, and deliver it in class.
Students will be asked to listen carefully to the various presentations, take notes, and be ready to ask questions. The research papers will be presented in class in English.

Key-notions in the study of taboo language and euphemism
1) What is a taboo?
2) The taboo domains
3) Are taboos universal?
4) What are dirty words?
5) What is politeness and impoliteness?
6) What is a euphemism, a dysphemism, an orthophemism, an Xphemism?
7) What is political correctness?

Various types of euphemisms
8) Death euphemisms
9) Body euphemisms
10) Sex euphemisms
11) Disease euphemisms
12) Race euphemisms
13) Age euphemisms

Euphemism and social context
14) The functions of euphemisms
15) The dangers of euphemisms
16) Euphemisms and politics
17) Euphemisms and economics
18) Euphemisms and literature
19) Euphemisms and truth
20) Can euphemisms change society?

Bibliographie

  • ALLEN Keith & BURRIDGE Kate, Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used As Shield and Weapon, New York, Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • ALLAN Keith & BURRIDGE Kate, Forbidden Words. Taboo and the Censoring of Language, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • BENVENISTE Emile, Problèmes de linguistique générale, I, Paris, Gallimard, Collection Tel, 1966 (chapitre XVIII : « La blasphémie et l’euphémie » : 254-257).
  • BONHOMME Marc, Les figures clés du discours, Paris, Seuil, 1998.
  • BONHOMME Marc, Pragmatique des figures du discours, Paris, Honoré Champion Editeur, 2005.
  • BROWN Penelope & LEVINSON Stephen, Politeness, 1978, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • ENRIGHT D. J., Fair of Speech. The Uses of Euphemism, Oxford, OUP, 1985.
  • ENRIGHT D. J., In Other Words, The Meanings and Memoirs of Euphemisms, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2005.
  • HAZAN Éric, LQR. La propagande du quotidien, Paris, Éditions Raisons d’agir, 2006.
  • JAMET Denis & JOBERT Manuel, Empreintes de l’euphémisme. Tours et détours, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2010.
  • WATTS Richard J., Politeness, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003

Contrôles des connaissances

Examen terminal oral