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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2004  
         
  Article:   EUPHEMISMS.

Authors:  SORIN UNGUREANU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  What are euphemisms? Where do they (keep) coming from? What is their role in today’s social exchanges? What is the mechanism behind their astonishing ubiquity? - And why, oh, why are they so successful? Can one get on his bike and still wear the breeches?... These, and a few other related topics in “Euphemisms”, a PhD report presented in 2003 at the Cluj School of Letters, under the supervision of Professor Mihai M. Zdrenghea, PhD.  
         
     
         
         
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