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Revista Brasileira de Linguística AplicadaThis paper has two objectives. First, by analyzing THE PLACE FOR THE EVENT-type metonymies, this paper points out that it is mainly negative events that are expressed by this type of metonymy. Second, this paper reveals the motivations of those THE PLACE
Nami Arimitsu
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On "Vulgar Exhibition": Hazlitt, "The Fight" and the Pornography of Popularity [PDF]
, 2009 This essay pursues Hazlitt as a case in Cultural Studies historiography by reading his 1822 essay "The Fight" as a contribution to the historical emergence of the discourse of "popular culture" as a class-inflected euphemism for pornography.
McCutcheon, Mark A.
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
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Who belongs in South Africa? ‘Tapestry nationalism’ in the African National Congress
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.Abstract Perhaps more than any other organisation, the African National Congress (ANC) has defined who belongs in South Africa. Yet, how does the organisation imagine national belonging, and how has this developed? We explore these questions through a discourse analysis of the organisation's annual ‘January 8’ statements.
David Jeffery‐Schwikkard +1 more
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EUPHEMISM IN ANIĆ'S DICTIONARY
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2005 Euphemism is one of the lexicographical marks for loaded words in Anić dictionaries. Anić defines euphemism as a «milder word». The euphemisms are hard to identify, the proof for it is the fact that we can find only 25 euphemisms in the Anić Dictionary ...
Dinka Pasini
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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BUSINESS BUZZWORDS: RIGHTSIZING, DOWNSIZING, RE-ENGINEERING, DE-LAYERING [PDF]
The paper attempts to analyse the rise and use of a new vocabulary (economic buzzwords) related to staff dismissal in the new economy of the world. In this new economy, the organizational boundaries between states and firms become unclear and a new ...
Pop Anamaria Mirabela
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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Політичні евфемізми як складова сучасної мови ЗМІ (Political euphemism as a component of modern media languages) [PDF]
, 2015 У статті проаналізовано евфемізми, що продукуються в сучасній мові ЗМІ, тобто властиві мас-медійному соціалекту. ЗМІ активно репрезентують вітчизняне й зарубіжне політичне життя, тож політичні евфемізми є важливою складовою сучасної мови ЗМІ.
Ільченко, О. (O. Ilchenko)
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