CONSIDERAȚII TEORETICE ASUPRA EUFEMISMULUI DIN LIMBAJUL DIMPLOMATIC

Abstract

The present paper aims to shed light on the implication of euphemism in relation to the notion of political discourse. Politicians are renowned for their mployment of words in a disguised fashion through the usage of euphemisms. Elected political representatives deliberately engage in grandiloquent expressions in order to highlight facts, being conscious of their subversive deception. Therefore, euphemisms are used as masks hiding veiled truths under the shaded reality. Often, selective vocabulary is used in order to arouse, rationalize and justify the use of euphemisms in political discourse. In order to achieve this, politicians frequently misrepresent the facts of various political situation by using terms that completely transform or falsify them. However, euphemisms are used in daily conversations, they are used more frequently in the political area, in such cases as “soft targets” or “peace keepers”. These expressions are heard frequently, while past ones are forgotten and new ones bloom in their place as transgressions continue. This research will consider the concept of euphemisms not only as a strictly lexical process used to mitigate certain concepts reckoned inadequate for normal linguistic usage, but also as a more comprehensive phenomenon with a primarily discursive dimension, depicting some theoretical approach.