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WAYS TO FORMATION DEATH EUPHEMISM IN THE RUSSIAN AND PERSIAN LANGUAGES

Journal: Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics (Vol.-, No. 2)

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Page : 165-177

Keywords : Taboo; euphemism; making euphemism; death; Russian language; Persian language;

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Abstract

This paper explores ways to build on the concept of death euphemisms in Russian and Persian. The concept of death has an important place in all the languages ​​of the world. During their lifetime, people associated with the concept of death as an inevitable face-were true. They were constantly trying to escape death or to conquer fear from being dead. The emergence of countless legends and myths is a sign of human effort to overcome the fear of death. Euphemism is another way that human being found to overcome the fear of death. Euphemism is an indirect, vague, and pleasant phrase that is being replaced for direct, explicit, and unpleasant phrase. According to historical sources, direct expression of the word “death” led to summon the spirit of the dead, so, a euphemism was used to reduce the negative side of the truth. Today, despite the growth of consciousness and civilization,yet speaking about the subject of death is unpleasant. Euphemism is being used, sometimes because of fear or manner. When making euphemism about “death” various tools are used: Lexical-semantic tools, Morphological tools, Methodological tools, Derivative tools and etc

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