Open AccessRhyming slang as a means of masking alcohol and drug addictions
Author(s) -
E. Yu. Gorshunova,
Yu. V. Gorshunov
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
vestnik mgimo-universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-9099
pISSN - 2071-8160
DOI - 10.24833/2071-8160-2013-1-28-212-217
Subject(s) - slang , masking (illustration) , addiction , psychology , drug , focus (optics) , linguistics , psychiatry , art , literature , philosophy , physics , optics
The article is concerned with analysis of rhyming slang euphemisms for some addictions (alcoholism and drug–taking). In the focus of attention is the concept “intoxicated/drug intoxicated”, the means of its representation and euphemistic rhyming slang names of some drugs and doses.