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The semantic structure of Pejoratives
Linguistik Online, 2017 Pejoratives find their place in the context of linguistic violence and offensive speech, and a theory of pejoratives thus should be connected to the (im-)politeness research.
Nenad Mišćević
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Pejorative Discourse Is Not Fictional [PDF]
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2017 Hom and May (2015) argue that pejoratives mean negative prescriptive properties that externally depend on social ideologies, and that this entails a form of fictionalism: pejoratives have null extensions. There are relevant uses of fictional terms that are necessary to describe the content of fictions, and to make true statements about the world, that ...
Marques, Teresa
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Gewalt der Sprache: Lexikalische Abwertung als (Ab)Bild einer Sprachgemeinschaft
Linguistik Online, 2017 The focus of this paper is on pejoratives, i. e. on lexical units of the negative evaluative type. Departing from the assumption that the study of negative evaluation offers an insight into hu-man nature, we shall here analyse the process of negative ...
Aneta Stojić, Marija Brala-Vukanović
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Übersetzung pejorativer Personenbezeichnungen
Linguistik Online, 2017 This paper investigates the translation of pejoratives referring to persons. The corpus is comprised of literary dialogues in the collection of short stories about the First World War by Miroslav Krleža.
Anita Pavić Pintarić
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NEGATIVE EVALUATION IN CONNOTATION OF THE AVAR LANGUAGE AS COMPARED IN RUSSIAN
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013 PurposeThe paper focuses on the analysis of the negative connotation and identification the role of the Avar pejoratives in forming the linguistic picture of the world from the point of view of comparative linguistics.MethodologyA theoretical research is
Хаджимурат Ахмадуевич Махмудов
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, 2016 Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, Vol 7, No 1 (2016)
Cepollaro, Bianca
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Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid
Text Matters, 2021 The 1984 feature film Splash initially included a scene featuring an embittered, older mermaid (referred to as the “Merhag” or “Sea-Hag” by the production team) that was deleted before the final version premiered.
Philip Hayward
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Slur Creation, Bigotry Formation: the Power of Expressivism
Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 Theories of slurs aim to explain how – via semantics, pragmatics, or other mechanisms – speakers who use slurs convey that targets are inferior persons. I present two novel problems. The Slur Creation Problem: How do terms come to be slurs? An expression
Robin Jeshion
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LINGUO-STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NOVEL UNDER THE PEELING CEILING BY GORAN PETROVIĆ
Filolog, 2022 The subject of the paper is the linguistic and stylistic features of the novel Under the Peeling Ceiling by Goran Petrović. The aim is to learn: (1) linguistic means used to shape discourse and (2) stylistic specificities of the novel.
Marija S. Nedeljković
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Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 We present the results of an experimental study that aims at establishing whether the offensive component of slurs exhibits nondisplaceability (Potts 2007).
Francesca Panzeri, Simone Carrus
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