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The semantic structure of Pejoratives [PDF]
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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Refusing to endorse: a must explanation for pejoratives [PDF]
, 2018 In her analysis of pejoratives, Eva Picardi rejects a too sharp separation between descriptive and expressive content. Carlo Penco reconstructs some of her arguments, endorsing Eva’s criticism of Williamson’s analysis of Dummett and developing a ...
Penco, Carlo
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The pragmatics of all-purpose pejoratives [PDF]
, 2021 This paper argues that all-purpose pejoratives such as ‘jerk’ or ‘bastard’ are just plain vanilla descriptions of personality traits that are generally seen as impairing for the self and for interpersonal relationships across different contexts.
Carranza-Pinedo, Víctor
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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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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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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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Do laudatives really mirror pejoratives? [PDF]
, 2020 Pejoratives are words like jerk that convey negative attitudes towards their targets. Laudatives are words like sweetheart that convey positive attitudes towards their targets.
Mellema, P.
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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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The Suffix /-ǧi/: Morphopragmatic Change from the Honorific to the Pejorative in Egyptian Arabic [PDF]
مجلة کلية الآداب. جامعة أسوانThe key assumption in this article is that morphopragmatic change can be seen in shifts in the pragmatic meaning of a morpheme. This paper deals primarily with how the suffix /-ǧi/ has changed from the profession suffix to the pejorative suffix in ...
د/بهاء الدين ابو الحسن حسن
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