Eliecer Crespo-Fernández. 2015. Sex in Language. Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in Internet Forums.

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  • Andrea Pizarro Pedraza Université catholique de Louvain

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Andrea Pizarro Pedraza, Université catholique de Louvain

Andrea Pizarro Pedraza holds a post-doctoral scholarship (Move-In) at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Her area of expertise is the linguistic expression of sexual taboo in Spanish and, more broadly, the interpretation of meaning variation in speech and social networks. She has authored papers on the variation of sexual concepts and has collected the Madrilenian Spoken Corpus of Sexuality (MadSex).

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2016-12-22

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Pizarro Pedraza, A. (2016). Eliecer Crespo-Fernández. 2015. Sex in Language. Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in Internet Forums. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 38(2), 273–278. Retrieved from https://atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/315

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2016: Vol. 38, Num. 2

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