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Modalities of Verbal Mitigation in Literary Language: Artful vs. Explicit Sexual Euphemism [PDF]
, 2008 [Abstract] It is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of two modalities of euphemism detected in the novels The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence and Yellow Dog by Martin Amis, referred to as ‘artful’ and ‘explicit euphemism’, that account for the wide
Crespo Fernández, Eliecer
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Drug entry into prisons represents a serious issue for both incarcerated people and prison staff. Although substances enter prisons in many ways, staff drug smuggling represents a consistent problem facing correctional institutions globally. We draw on 131 interviews with correctional officers (COs) working in four Western Canadian prisons to ...
William J. Schultz +2 more
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Tikriniai velniavardžiai lietuvių tarmėse ir tautosakoje
Baltistica, 2018 In the Lithuanian dialects and folklore, 22 different proper names for the devil have been recorded. Together with their vernacular variants found in various regions of Lithuania, the number would be close to 50.
Birutė Jasiūnaitė
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
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Hasan Bin Muhammed el-Hanefiyye’nin Hayatı, Kadere Dair Risâlesi ve Kaderle İlgili Görüşleri
Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019 Birçok farklı siyasi ve itikadî etken nedeniyle ilk asırda Müslümanlar arasında tartışılan ilk konulardan biri kader konusudur. Bu dönemde, kader ile ilgili Müslümanlar arasında birbirine zıt iki anlayış gelişmiştir.
Yasin Ulutaş
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A Simultaneous Concept Analysis to Provide Clarity Between Obstetric Violence and Birth Trauma
Birth, EarlyView.There are critical gaps and conceptual confusion between the subjective trauma arising from childbirth experiences (birth trauma) and the trauma specifically resulting from abuse, coercion, and neglect by healthcare providers (obstetric violence); we propose a new term, “obstetric trauma” Obstetric trauma would specifically indicate the consequences of
Kripalini Patel +3 more
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CODE-SWITCHING AND CODE-MIXING ON PERSUASION IN INDONESIAN TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS [PDF]
, 2017 Bilingualism and multilingualism have been a popular topic to discuss recently. Two the examples of the phenomenon are code-switching and code-mixing.
Mutiara , Sintya
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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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A Taxonomy of Mitigation Devices in English Language
مجلة جامعة كويه للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية, 2020 Language mitigation refers to strategies that people adopt to avoid face-threatening situations in conversation and thereby to linguistically repair the damage done to someone’s face by what one says or does.
Aso I. Ali, Salah M. Salih
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