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“Political Correctness”: Interpretation Aspects
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2017 The article provides the topical for modern society notion – the notion of political correctness. The author discloses its content in different historical epochs and in the appliance to various branches of science and humanities: political science ...
Alisa O. Kagileva
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, 1998 In the standard physical interpretation of quantum theory, prediction and retrodiction are not symmetric. The opposite assertion by some authors results from their use of non-standard interpretations of the theory.Comment: final version in Physics ...
Aharonov +5 more
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Why Ganymede Faints and the Duke of York Weeps: Passion Plays in Shakespeare [PDF]
, 2017 This article revisits contemporary critical debates surrounding the presence of cross-dressed boys as women on the early modern stage – in particular the question of whether or to what extent boy-actors could or should be said to represent ‘women’ or ...
Sujata Iyengar
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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, 2011 More Pun Quiz misdefinitions. In parenthesis are the letters in the answer; (3|6) is a charade, a nine-letter word that splits into a three plus six letter pun.
Anil, A.
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The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, rather than redressing, the harms they acknowledge.
Abraham Tobi
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of an Old Romanian Expression: “a se duce la Cucuiata”
ACROSSThis paper analyses, from a semantic and pragmatic perspective, the meaning of an old Romanian phraseological unit a se duce la Cucuiata, thus providing insights into the archaic Romanian mentality and cultural patterns. Originating from the word cucui (
Alexandra Monica TOMA
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2018 According to Allan & Burridge [1991: 11], “[a] euphemism is used as an alternative to a dispreferred expression, in order to avoid possible loss of face: either one’s own face or, through giving offence, that of the audience, or some third party.” The ...
Denis Jamet
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, 2020 This is a list of words or names that start with every digraph combination of 2 letters, except one.
Quiz, Alex J.
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract How do palliative care professionals negotiate end‐of‐life care with family members when prognosis and dying are not openly discussed? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an Indonesian palliative care unit, I argue that palliative care professionals employ implicit, ambiguous and culturally sensitive communication to carefully negotiate ...
Hanum Atikasari
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