Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 92] 2021. viii, 323 pp.
Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eliecer Crespo-Fernández plays a role.
Title
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociology
Articles
2023 Provocative euphemism in pornographic film titles: A critical analysis Journal of Language and Sexuality 12:1, pp. 46–72 | Article
Following a critical discourse-analytic approach, this study explores the role of euphemistic language in a corpus of titles of pornographic films designed for heterosexual male consumption that were nominated and awarded in the different categories of the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, also… read more
2021 Introduction: Discourse analysis and public communication Discourse Studies in Public Communication, Crespo-Fernández, Eliecer (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2018 Euphemism as a discursive strategy in US local and state politics Journal of Language and Politics 17:6, pp. 789–811 | Article
Euphemism is a discursive strategy that politicians use to approach unsettling, embarrassing, or distasteful, i.e. taboo, topics without appearing inconsiderate to people’s concerns. Following a critical discourse-analytic approach to political language, this paper discusses the communicative… read more
2017 Anglicisms and word axiology in homosexual language Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 30:1, pp. 74–103 | Article
Among those areas linked to the forbidden, homosexuality has traditionally met one of the strongest interdictions. Given the taboo nature of homosexuality, it is our purpose in this paper to gain an insight into the axiological values that anglicisms present in the Spanish homosexual vocabulary.… read more
2013 Euphemistic conceptual metaphors in epitaphs from Highgate Cemetery Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 201–227 | Article
Death is a timeless taboo in which psychological, religious and social interdictions coexist. In consequence, human beings feel reluctant to deal with the subject of death using straightforward terms and therefore tend to soften the effect of what they really wish to communicate. With this in mind,… read more
2012 Lexical and visual choices in the representation of immigration in the Spanish press Spanish in Context 9:1, pp. 27–57 | Article
Our goal in this paper is to shed some light on the treatment of immigration issues in the current Spanish press via the analysis of the visual and lexical choices used in the journalistic representation of immigration. With this in mind, taking Critical Discourse Analysis and Visual Grammar as… read more
2011 Euphemistic conceptual metaphors in epitaphs from Highgate Cemetery Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 198–225 | Article
Death is a timeless taboo in which psychological, religious and social interdictions coexist. In consequence, human beings feel reluctant to deal with the subject of death using straightforward terms and therefore tend to soften the effect of what they really wish to communicate. With this in mind,… read more