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Journal of English Linguistics, 2011
Despite the general societal ban on use of forms of nigger, a variant finds continued acceptance among some members of the African American community for intragroup self-reference. The present research employs quantitative and qualitative analysis of data from narratives by African American comedians to show that a variant of nigger that developed in ...
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Despite the general societal ban on use of forms of nigger, a variant finds continued acceptance among some members of the African American community for intragroup self-reference. The present research employs quantitative and qualitative analysis of data from narratives by African American comedians to show that a variant of nigger that developed in ...
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2005
We have known for twenty years the three best predictors of success at work. But if you read popular books about, or attend advanced courses on, recruitment and selection you would never guess what they are. And, paradoxically, they are almost never measured or fully enquired into at interviews or even at assessment centres.
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We have known for twenty years the three best predictors of success at work. But if you read popular books about, or attend advanced courses on, recruitment and selection you would never guess what they are. And, paradoxically, they are almost never measured or fully enquired into at interviews or even at assessment centres.
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History, Amnesia, and the N Word
Dissent, 2008The subject is small—a word. Yet the subject contained within the subject is immeasurable: racism American-style. It isn't always a good idea to reduce vast social dimensions to a pithy cognomen—all the great "isms" are finally irreducible—but there are special cases, and when Jabari Asim asks us to examine American racism (particularly racism against ...
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Locality Restrictions on N-Word Licensing
International Journal of Linguistics, 2017The main objective of this paper is to consider the locality restrictions that hold between Negation and N(egative)-words within the framework of the Minimalist Program. The discussions are based on data from Amazigh, in particular the Tashelhit variety spoken in the Southwest of Morocco. By N-words, I intend elements like ‘ħtta+NP’ ( no-one) which are
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Contrastive Focus, French N-words and Variation
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1998AbstractThe aim of this article is to argue that the similarities and differences in the interpretation ofn-words (personne, rien, etc.) in two closely related dialects of French can be explained by considerations linked to lexical properties as well as to properties of contrastive stress in Universal Grammar.
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The N-Word: Reducing Verbal Pollution in Schools
The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2008In this article, the author focuses on the crisis of verbal pollution in our society. Verbal pollution refers to the use of words and comments that the majority agrees are offensive, are damaging, and may lead to the deterioration of social institutions.
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Coordination, C-Command, and ‘Logophoric’ N -words
2000Abstract There are two ways in which licensing of Negative-polarity items (NPIs) shows unexpected behaviour in conjuncts and adjuncts. First, when the principles of grammar predict licensing, this licensing fails, for example in coordination.
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