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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Semantic Transformations of Lexeme ‘Gender’ in English
Научный диалогThis article conducts a comprehensive diachronic analysis of the semantic transformations of the lexeme ‘gender’ within the English. The relevance of this study lies in its exploration of the linguocognitive mechanisms that have elevated the term to the ...
T. M. Shkapenko +2 more
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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Euphemization in English Political Discourse: A Functional-Communicative Approach
Научный диалогThis article addresses the contemporary issue of euphemization within English-language political discourse as a means to achieve authorial intentions and shape public opinion.
O. A. Zharina +2 more
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
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A PERCEPTION OF EUPHEMISTIC-COINAGE AND CREATIVITY OF YOUTHS IN AKOKOLAND
International Studies JournalResearch Problem: Although euphemism has received scholarly attention in other contexts, little research has examined its communicative and social functions among Nigerian youths.
AFOLABI INNOCENT ARIREMAKO +1 more
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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Innovations: The Eureka Euphemism
Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 Santosh G Honavar
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The communicator uses an implicit reference rather than explicitly referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
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