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2018
Fictional terms have null extensions, and in this regard pejorative terms are a species of fictional term: although there are Jews, there are no kikes. The central consequence of the Moral and Semantic Innocence (MSI) view of Hom and May (2013) is that for pejoratives, null extensionality is the semantic realization of the moral fact that no one ought ...
Christopher Hom, Robert May
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Fictional terms have null extensions, and in this regard pejorative terms are a species of fictional term: although there are Jews, there are no kikes. The central consequence of the Moral and Semantic Innocence (MSI) view of Hom and May (2013) is that for pejoratives, null extensionality is the semantic realization of the moral fact that no one ought ...
Christopher Hom, Robert May
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On the syntactic expression of pejorative mood
Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2004The hypothesis of the copy theory of movement forces us to look at mismatches between syntax and LF on the one hand, and syntax and PF on the other in particular ways, often revealing new insights. Through such a lens, we examine the syntactic expression of pejorative mood through echo reduplication, focusing on shm-reduplication in (varieties of ...
Grohmann, Kleanthes K., Nevins, Andrew
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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 2006
Abstract The Picturesque arraigned Whether capitalised as an aesthetic category or movement, or used as a throwaway adjective,1 the Picturesque has become the whipping-boy of landscape theory. In everyday speech, though much diluted, it remains a term of approbation, but in critical and academic writing it is most often used in a pejorative sense.2 ...
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Abstract The Picturesque arraigned Whether capitalised as an aesthetic category or movement, or used as a throwaway adjective,1 the Picturesque has become the whipping-boy of landscape theory. In everyday speech, though much diluted, it remains a term of approbation, but in critical and academic writing it is most often used in a pejorative sense.2 ...
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Vegetative state is a pejorative term
NeuroRehabilitation, 2012The term persistent vegetative state (PVS) refers to the only circumstance in which an apparent dissociation of both components of consciousness is found, characterized by preservation of wakefulness with an apparent loss of awareness. Several authors have recently demonstrated by functional neuroimaging studies that a small subset of unresponsive ...
Calixto, Machado +10 more
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2016
This paper analyses examples of pejoration in the dynamic multilinguals setting of urban German, and their possible Turkish sources. The focus of our investigation is on pejorative functions of m-reduplication (“Cola Mola”). In addition, we discuss usages of “Scherz”/“Spaß” ‘joke, fun’ in urban German, as well as their Turkish counterpart “şaka”, as ...
Heike Wiese, Nilgin Tanis Polat
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This paper analyses examples of pejoration in the dynamic multilinguals setting of urban German, and their possible Turkish sources. The focus of our investigation is on pejorative functions of m-reduplication (“Cola Mola”). In addition, we discuss usages of “Scherz”/“Spaß” ‘joke, fun’ in urban German, as well as their Turkish counterpart “şaka”, as ...
Heike Wiese, Nilgin Tanis Polat
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But Not in the Pejorative Sense
1982The idea had been to interview Brendan Behan, to report a conversation with one of our leading dramatists, but at the first literary question Mr Behan spat eloquently into the fire and said, ‘Let’s go to the pub.’
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A Misleading and Pejorative Book
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2002Saxby, Pridmore, Iqbal, Pasha
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