Funeralese is a register of speech used by funeral directors.
Features include the use of euphemisms[1] and hushed tone.[2][3]
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terminology,
- for cemeteries, 193-4
- FTC and, 198-9
- for funeral industry, 17, 52, 155-6, 193
- international, 193, 209, 211, 217-18
Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death discusses various euphemisms and terminologies. P. 17, 52.
Edward A. Martin 1956 Victor Landig Basic Principles of Funeral Service Funeral Direction and Management by Miss Anne Hamilton Franz
"funeralese" in p. 156
References
edit- ^ Bryant, D'Orsay D., III (1986). "The Doctor and Death". Journal of the National Medical Association. 78 (3): 228. PMC 2571262.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Allan, K. Brown, Keith (ed.). Jargon. Vol. 6 (2nd ed.). p. 110. doi:10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/05147-6.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Allan, Keith; Burridge, Kate (2006). "Bad language? Jargon, slang, swearing and insult". Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 58. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511617881.003.
- ^ Mitford, Jessica (2000). The American Way of Death Revisited. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-77186-7.
Further reading
edit- Cebrat, Grzegors (2016). Death Notice as a Genre: An Analysis of The New York Times Online Edition (PhD). Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski. pp. 70–72.
- Jamet, D. 2010. Euphemisms for death: reinventing reality through words? In S. Sorlin (ed.), Inventive linguistics, 173-187. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
To check out
edit- Lifton, R.J. and Olson, E. 1974. Living and Dying. (Third printing). New York: Praeger Publishers.
- Karasu, Toksoz B. (1985). "Idea of Death". Integrative Psychiatry. 3 (4): 280–283.
- Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.
A list of such euphemisms can be found in Fulton and Geis, p. 15, another in Kramer, 14, and another in Mitford 18, 77, and 229. Mitford discusses this numerous times since it is a prominent feature of the funeral industry which she was investigating. See also Harald Gunderson, A History of Funeral Direction in Alberta (Calgary: Alberta Funeral Association, 1993), 55, which features actual instructions given to members of the industry in this regard.
Robert Kavanaugh, Facing Death. (1973)
Fulton, Robert; Geis, Gilbert (1965). "Death and Social Values". In Fulton, Robert (ed.). Death and Identity. New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 67–75.
Kramer, Kenneth. The Sacred Art of Dying: How World Religions Understand Death. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1988. [1]
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