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Golubeva T. M. Euphemisms as a Means of Concealing the Negative Facts of Reality in Speeches by US Secretary of State M. Pompeo. Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2019, vol. 19, iss. 4, pp. 404-408. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2019-19-4-404-408

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Euphemisms as a Means of Concealing the Negative Facts of Reality in Speeches by US Secretary of State M. Pompeo

The article researches the peculiarities of the use of euphemisms in the speeches by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo which deal with the civil war in Yemen in 2015–2018, Saudi Arabia’s military participation in this war and the investigation of the murder of journalist J. Hashoggi in October of 2018.

Authors: 
Golubeva
Tatiana
Mikhailovna
,
Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev
,
Russia, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Minin St., 24
,
gtm212@mail.ru
Key words: 
euphemisms, understatement, under-specification, periphrasis, words with broad meaning
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2019-19-4-404-408
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