The crime of insult: Legal regulation and language analysis of insult in court judgments [PDF]
The importance of criminal law protection of honor and reputation and imprecise legal conceptual determination of insult, as a basic and general criminal offense against honor and reputation, pointed to the need to determine in theory and court practice ...
Ranđelović Višnja, Spasić Jelena
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The Suffix /-ǧi/: Morphopragmatic Change from the Honorific to the Pejorative in Egyptian Arabic [PDF]
The 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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Antimongoloid as a pejorative term [PDF]
To the Editor: As someone with an interest in case reports (1-3), I read your editorial regarding the comeback of the case report with great interest (4). The three case reports that you published (5-7) are a great read. The case report by Nosan et al (6) mentions an “antimongoloid palpebral slant,” which is a term with pejorative connotations (8,9). A
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The pragmatics of all-purpose pejoratives [PDF]
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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‘Boghossian’s Blind Reasoning’, Conditionalization, and Thick Concepts. A Functional Model
Boghossian’s (2003) proposal to conditionalize concepts as a way to secure their legitimacy in disputable cases applies well, not just to pejoratives – on whose account Boghossian first proposed it – but also to thick ethical concepts.
Olga Ramírez
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Vivre avec handicap à Kinshasa. Points de vue des personnes en situation de handicap [PDF]
A Kinshasa, l’image sociale des personnes en situation de handicap reste largement dégradante. Stigmatisées et traitées généralement des marginales mendiantes, elles sont reléguées au rang des humains les moins considérés dans la représentation ...
Willy MBALANDA LAWUNDA +1 more
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Lexical means of expressing emotivity and evaluation in theprose by Gennady Yushkov
Introduction. The paper deals the description of some lexical means of expressing emotivity and evaluation in the prose by Gennady Yushkov (1932–2009). Materials and Methods. The article is based on the texts of the novels and short stories by G.
Olga N. Bazhenova
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On the non-specificity of slurs [PDF]
A quite neglected question pertaining to the classification of the different theories on slurs concerns their extendibility to other pejoratives and expressives in general. In this paper, we show that the linguistic behaviour of pejoratives is similar to
Frigerio Aldo, Tenchini Maria Paola
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Stratagemic and Tactical Variation in Conflictogenic Network Discourse: Glocalization of Value Space [PDF]
This article offers an examination of the use of conflictogenic communication tactics as well as the situational determination of their implementation in comments posted in social networks in the Republic of Dagestan (Russia) and in the Stavropol Region (
Evgeniy A. Avdeev +2 more
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Conservatives and racists: inferential role semantics and pejoratives
According to inferential role semantics (IRS), for any given expression to possess a particular meaning one must be disposed to make or, alternatively, acknowledge as correct certain inferential transitions involving it.
Whiting, Daniel J., Daniel J. Whiting
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