EUFEMIZAM – ATRIBUT ENGLESKOG JEZIKA U POLITIČKIM NOVINSKIM ČLANCIMA O IMIGRACIJI
EUPHEMISM – AN ATRIBUTE OF ENGLISH IN POLITICAL NEWSPAPERS ARTICLES ON IMMIGRATION

Summary/Abstract: One of the highly productive morphological processes in language is euphemisation. Motivated by taboo, it represents a significant means in contemporary day to day discourse in search for alternative language expressions suitable for each individual’s sensibility. Euphemisms should be studied not only from linguistic aspect, but socio-cultural as well since language impacts culture and our attitude towards social problems; it also shapes our ontological and ethical reality. The goals of this paper are to identify and analyze euphemisms for the term immigrant that can be found in political articles in the most prominent daily newspapers in Great Britain and The United States which deal with immigration in the sense of determing their connotative meaning (positive, neutral, negative), then to confirm equivalency in their use in British and American press, and wider, in British and American varity of English, and, finally, to determine their frequency in the language corpus (Corpus of Contemporary American English).

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