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Direct linkFaure, Pascaline – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The purpose of this lexicological study is to present a typology of patients' euphemizing lay denominations of medical terms illustrated by examples in English and French. Various textbooks and lexicons dealing with English and French for medical purposes served as corpora. The euphemisms were classified according to the three semantic processes…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, French, Figurative Language, Semantics
Download full textPalmberg, Rolf – 1983
Three experiments from the late 1970s concerning second language communication strategies are studied for evidence supporting their classification as either avoidance or achievement strategies. The experiments had as subjects native English-speaking children in a French immersion program, adult second language learners of English who were native…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Anxiety, Children, Classification
