Table 5 Frequencies and percentages of the euphemistic strategies used by iraqi students in referring to mental illness in different social contexts: formal-informal.
From: Effects of gender and degree of formality on the use of euphemistic strategies in Iraqi Arabic
Strategies | Formal | Informal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Frequencies | Percentages | Frequencies | Percentages | |
General-for- specific | 38 | 7.91% | 82 | 17.08% |
Fuzzy words | 64 | 13.33% | 58 | 12.08% |
Deletion | 47 | 9.79% | 15 | 3.12% |
Implication | 28 | 5.83% | 35 | 7.29% |
Understatement | 0 | 0 | 16 | 3.33% |
Overstatement | 6 | 1.25% | 1 | 0.20% |
Technical Jargon | 32 | 6.66% | 28 | 5.83% |
Taboo | 9 | 1.87% | 63 | 13.12% |
No response | 256 | 53.36% | 182 | 37.91% |
Total | 480 | 100% | 480 | 100% |
