Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Typographic Conventions -- On the Nature of Euphemism -- 1.1 Euphemism: In search of definition -- 1.1.1 Language restrictions -- 1.1.2 Building euphemistic blocks over taboo -- 1.1.3 The category of X-phemism: Pizza or the melting pot? -- 1.1.4 Concluding remarks -- 1.2 Mechanisms behind X-phemisms -- 1.2.1 Structural tools -- 1.2.2 Semantic tools -- 1.2.3 Rhetorical Tools -- 1.2.4 Syntactic/Grammatical tools -- 1.2.5 Concluding remarks -- 1.3 Context as a disambiguating factor in the interpretation of X-phemism -- 1.3.1 X-phemism and context -- 1.3.2 Extralinguistic context in the act of X-phemism disambiguation -- On the Specifics of Sexual Relations in the History of Mankind with Due Reference to Sex for Sale -- 2.1 Conceptualisation of sex, gender and sexuality -- 2.2 Historical variations in conceptualisation of sex relations -- 2.2.1 From antique all-going permissiveness to Victorian restrictiveness -- 2.2.2 The sexual revolution of the 20th century -- 2.3 An outline of cultural variation in conceptualisation of sex relations -- 2.3.1 Anglo-Saxon -- 2.3.2 Romance -- 2.3.3 Germanic -- 2.3.4 Slavonic -- 2.3.5 Non-Indo-European -- 2.4 Concluding remarks -- Panchronic Developments of the Lexical Items Linked to the Conceptual Category FALLEN WOMAN -- 3.1 On the internal organisation of the conceptual category FALLEN WOMAN -- 3.1.1 Historical foundations of the intricacies in the structure of the conceptual category FALLEN WOMAN -- 3.2 Historical growth of the lexical items linked to the conceptual category FALLEN WOMAN -- 3.2.1 Formative mechanisms employed in the coinage of lexical items linked to the conceptual category FALLEN WOMAN -- 3.3 Methodology contour -- 3.4 Old English X-phemisms linked to the conceptual category FALLEN WOMAN.

3.5 Middle English X-phemisms linked to the conceptual category FALLEN WOMAN -- 3.5.1 Middle English synonyms and structural tools -- 3.5.2 Middle English synonyms and semantic tools -- 3.5.3 Middle English rhetorical tools at work -- 3.6 Early Modern English X-phemisms linked to theconceptual category FALLEN WOMAN -- 3.6.1 Early Modern English metaphorically based X-phemisms -- 3.6.2 Early Modern English metonymy conditioned synonyms -- 3.6.3 Early Modern English and the mechanism of understatement at work -- 3.6.4 Early Modern English borrowing -- 3.6.5 The role of eponymy in Early Modern English -- 3.6.6 Early Modern English working of circumlocution -- 3.6.7 Early Modern English employment of morphological derivation -- Conclusions -- Index -- References.