This research paper is an endeavor to delineate various linguistic taboos about women's physiology with a focus on both the categories and functions of taboos in Pakistani society. The aim is to bring forth myriad euphemistic expressions employed in print media. The paper contests that taboos are moderated at the expanse of society's cultural and religious norms.It also offers a rationale behind the popular use of euphemistic expressions for Pakistani Females' daily issues. Allan and Burridge's (2006) theoretical framework furnished the basic framework for the analysis of different euphemistic expressions. The data for the study comprises thirteen different English newspaper articles published in the last six years (2016-2021). The data analysis revealed that euphemisms could connote multiple shades of meaning ranging from shame, disgust, exasperation, and upliftment. It was established that euphemisms operate along dysphemism and orthophemisminterchangeably depending on the context in which they appeared.
Keywords : Euphemism, Gender Studies, Orthophemism, Sociolinguistics, Taboo
Authored by :
(1) Ayesha Izhar Chaudhri
Lecturer, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
(2) Tazanfal Tehseem
Assistant Professor, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
(3) Barirah Nazir
Lecturer, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
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