Table 1 Frequencies and percentages of the euphemistic strategies used by iraqi males and females in referring to death.
From: Effects of gender and degree of formality on the use of euphemistic strategies in Iraqi Arabic
Strategies | Frequencies | Percentages |
|---|---|---|
Overstatement | 239 | 24.89% |
Deletion | 105 | 10.93% |
Part-for-whole | 71 | 7.39% |
Borrowing | 46 | 4.79% |
Synonym | 36 | 3.75% |
Compounding | 12 | 1.25% |
General-for- specific | 7 | 0.72% |
Flippancies | 4 | 0.41% |
Taboo | 120 | 12.5% |
No response | 320 | 33.33% |
Total | 960 | 100% |
