ACADEMICIA: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL

  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 12

Lexical units expressing negative human nature in turkish and the role of euphemisms in their translation

*Teacher, Department of “History, Culture, Politics and Economy of the Turkic People”, Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Email id: zebosalimova1990@gmail.com

Online published on 12 February, 2021.

Abstract

This scientific article focuses on the use of euphemisms in Turkish to describe the negative traits of a person. Units used to express negative properties are analyzed. The linguistic possibilities of expressing a person’s image through zoonyms are considered. In Turkish, the emphasis is on the language vocabulary, reflecting the negative image of people and revealing their character.

Keywords

Language, Human Image, Character, Euphemism, Zoonym, Image, Portrait, Positive, Negative, Appearance, Analogy, Image, Alternative, Equivalent, Volume Of Language, Transfer Of Meaning