Table 3 Frequencies and percentages of the euphemistic strategies used by iraqi males and females in referring to obesity.
From: Effects of gender and degree of formality on the use of euphemistic strategies in Iraqi Arabic
Strategies | Frequencies | Percentages |
|---|---|---|
Implication | 176 | 18.33% |
Overstatement | 88 | 9.16% |
Particularization | 73 | 7.60% |
Compounding | 51 | 5.31% |
Reversal | 26 | 2.70% |
Deletion | 20 | 2.08% |
Understatement | 17 | 1.77% |
Metaphor | 9 | 0.93% |
Taboo | 82 | 8.54% |
no response | 418 | 43.58% |
Total | 960 | 100% |
