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Russian
Heading: 
Linguistics
Article type: 
Article
UDC: 
811.111’373.49+929Помпео
DOI: 
10.18500/1817-7115-2019-19-4-404-408
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SIWIQW

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

Autors: 
Golubeva Tatiana Mikhailovna, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev
Abstract: 

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.

Key words: 
euphemisms
understatement
under-specification
periphrasis
words with broad meaning
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Received: 
30.06.2019
Accepted: 
30.08.2019
Available online: 
20.11.2019
Published: 
20.11.2019