Euphemism and Dysphemism during the War of the Spanish Succession (1710-1713): George Ridpath

Raquel Sánchez Ruiz

doi:10.18172/cif.2959

Autores/as

Raquel Sánchez Ruiz Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0022-7734

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.2959

Palabras clave:

eufemismo, disfemismo, George Ridpath, escritos políticos, Guerra de Sucesión Española

Resumen

El eufemismo y el disfemismo aparecen frecuentemente en la comunicación política, pues el primero es un maquillaje lingüístico para el engaño y la distorsión de la realidad (Rodríguez González 1991: 90) mientras que el segundo destaca los atributos más peyorativos del tabú para ofender (Crespo-Fernández 2015: 2). Partiendo de ahí he analizado ambos recursos en los escritos políticos de George Ridpath durante la Guerra de Sucesión Española (1710-1713), en un corpus que abarca dos periódicos (The Observator y The Flying Post), con el fin de esclarecer cómo manipula y moldea la opinión pública británica mediante el lenguaje durante el periodo Estuardo. Para ello he seguido el enfoque de la Teoría de la Valoración (Martin y White 2005) de Taboada y Grieve (2004), así como la Teoría de la Cortesía (Brown y Levinson 1987), la Teoría de la Imagen (Goffman 1967), el Análisis Crítico de la Metáfora de Charteris-Black (2005: 45) y la Teoría de la Metáfora Conceptual (Gibbs 2011). Los resultados demuestran que Ridpath empleó el lenguaje eufemístico y disfemístico para representar positivamente al propio grupo y negativamente al oponente.

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Biografía del autor/a

Raquel Sánchez Ruiz, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Departamento de Filología Moderna (Inglés)

Profesora Contratada Doctora

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