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Human Dependence on Nature: How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis by Haydn Washington [PDF]
, 2014 Review of Human Dependence on Nature: How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis by Haydn ...
Hanson, Lorelei
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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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Kajian Linguistik dan SastraThe phenomenon of using softened and indirect language in digital communication has drawn attention in sociolinguistic studies, particularly in the context of netizen comments on public figures.
Nur Rizka Laila, Nuryani
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Особливості вживання евфемізмів в англійській та українській мовах [PDF]
У статті розглянуто проблему функціонування соціальних евфемізмів у сучасних англійській та українській мовах. На прикладі евфемізмів однієї тематичної групи ― економіки та бізнесу ― проаналізовано способи евфемізації, розглянуто етичні аспекти ...
Драб, Наталия Леонидовна +3 more
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2018 The following article is the basis for the research of euphemisms. They, being an important language component of political discourse, perform a number of functions which are especially important in this type of communication. Communicative features of euphemisms allow us to formulate accurately the spheres of political euphemisms, to systematize them ...
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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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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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Taboo euphemisms vs. regular euphemisms
, 2016 We can distinguish taboo euphemisms from regular euphemism, depending on the reason for using euphemisms. Taboo euphemisms are based on superstition or religious prohibition. Most euphemisms of this type have appeared out of fear. In such a way, the speaker believed that he drove away negative phenomena only by substituting the word quot;devilquot; by ...
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, 2022 With its clear anthropocentric orientation, the new scientific paradigm focused on the study of euphemisms not only as a form of communication but also as a cultural unit, influencing not only linguistic but also extralinguistic factors influencing the emergence and functioning of euphemisms.
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