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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2022 The first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as stressful. People make light of stressful situations in different ways. Ghanaians are known to be able to make humour out of any situation.
Lillian Phillips-Kumaga +4 more
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“Too Posh to Push”: The Rise and Rise of a Catchphrase
Birth, 2013 AbstractBackgroundThe phrase “too posh to push” was coined over 14 years ago to describe maternal request for cesarean section in the absence of clinical indications. The phrase was readily taken up and used by the United Kingdom media despite limited evidence that many women request cesarean sections or have an aversion to vaginal birth.
Weaver, Jane, Magill-Cuerden, Julia
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN DECISION TOOL FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN INDONESIA
Teras Jurnal: Jurnal Teknik Sipil, 2016 Sustainable building has become a catchphrase in many countries. Issue on sustainability has attracted researchers from industry and academia in recent years, and the number is still growing. Despite different definitions of sustainable building, quality
Hamdi Akmal Lubis
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Bob, Little Jim, Bluebottle, and the Three Stooges
, 2011 I outline Robert Solomon’s Inferiority theory of humor, which he illustrated by reference to the Three Stooges and contrasted with the Superiority, Incongruity, and Relief theories.
Stephen Davies, Davies, Stephen
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Fun and Fearless: Magazine Covers, Feminine Ideologies, and Representations
Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2018 Starting with the assumption that media, particularly magazines, serve as a ground that shape the ideological landscape for women representations, this paper explored feminine ideologies and representations of twelve (12) Cosmopolitan Philippines ...
Claudette A. Baluran
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Exposer la prison « au-delà des murs »
Signata, 2021 Within the framework of the international and travelling exhibition Prison, co-produced by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (Geneva), the Musée des Confluences (Lyon), and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (Dresden), a discourse on prison ...
Pierluigi Basso Fossali +1 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Indigenous participation in environmental management is essential for achieving just and effective ecological outcomes. This study investigates the positive discourses that support the integration of Te Ao Māori (the Māori world view) in environmental restoration practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. We introduce Kaupapa Māori Discourse Analysis—a
Kiri Dell, Joanne Clapcott, Kaya Tapu
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Modern French Phraseological Units-Citations and Sources of its Origin
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2017 In the article on a material of modern French language the main sources of origin of phraseology-quotes are considered. The authors propose to understand by the term «idiom-quote» such idioms, derivation base of which is a verbatim excerpt from some text
Taisiya I. Skorobogatova +1 more
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Social Remittances and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Embedding Migration in the Study of Society [PDF]
Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 2019 Our article considers social remittances and social change in Central and Eastern Europe. We show how migration scholarship can be embedded into the wider study of social processes and relations.
Anne White, Izabela Grabowska
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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