Truths and Euphemisms: How Euphemisms Are Used in the Political Arena
Truths and Euphemisms: How Euphemisms Are Used in the Political Arena
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真相与委婉语：委婉语如何在政治舞台上使用
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2011
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S. Karam
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政客们因通过使用委婉语而变相使用词语而臭名昭著。因此，他们的信息成为一个重复出现的明显欺骗的主题。当选的政府代表故意发表夸张的言论，意识到它的颠覆能力。委婉语的偏离是由社会规范引导的，政客们为了维护自己的形象而被允许行使这些规范。当政客们用有意识的欺骗来包裹看似良好的意图时，人们在这个过程中受到了伤害。当权者掌握了压倒性的委婉语，违反了司法，犯了罪。事实上，委婉语被用作面具，将真相隐藏在具有真正、有价值目标的演讲者的保护性语气之下。选择性词汇被用来唤起、合理化和证明。为了达到这一目的，政客们使用完全改变或伪造事实的术语来歪曲各种政治局势的事实。委婉语在日常对话中使用得很简单。然而，它们被更频繁地使用和误用的地方是在政治舞台上，在这样的情况下，例如“软目标”或“维和人员”或“附带损害”。这些表达是经常听到的，而过去的表达被遗忘了，新的表达随着违规行为的继续而被取代。在这篇文章中，我将使用于尔根·哈贝马斯的公共领域理论，这是一个批判性的理论，展示了观众的观点如何影响政治行动。本文将展示委婉语在政治语言中的刻意使用，它既是一种文化因素，也是一种不断变化的因素，以适应不断变化的政治舞台。
Politicians are notorious for their employment of words in a disguised fashion through the usage of euphemisms. Consequently, their message becomes a recurrent theme of conspicuous deception. Elected government representatives deliberately engage in grandiloquent expression conscious of its subversive capacity. The deviancy of euphemisms is guided by social norms that politicians are permitted to exercise in order to safeguard their images. When politicians envelop seemingly good intentions with conscious deception, people are harmed in the process. Those in power transgress justice and commit crimes with their overwhelming command of euphemisms. In fact, euphemisms are utilized as masks, hiding truths under the protective tones of a speaker with a genuine, worthwhile goal. Selective vocabulary is employed to arouse, rationalize and justify. To achieve this end, politicians misrepresent the facts of various political situations by using terms that completely transform or falsify them. Euphemisms are used simplistically in daily conversations. However, where they are used and misused more frequently is in the political arena, in such cases as “soft targets” or “peace keepers” or “collateral damage.” These expressions are heard frequently, while past ones are forgotten and new ones primed in their place as transgressions continue. In this paper, I will make use of Jurgen Habermas’ public sphere theory, a critical theory that demonstrates how the audience’s outlook affects political action. This article will demonstrate the deliberate use of euphemisms in political language both as a cultural element and as one that is constantly changing to suit the ever-changing political arena.