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Remarks on the pejorative suffix: testing the speaker’s intuition towards a phase theory in words

Gragoatá, 2018
We seek to investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic factors by focusing on the formation of derivational names by suffix derivation, reflecting on bases, affixes, products, and the relationships established between them.
Rafael Dias Minussi, Caroline da Silva Oliveira   +1 more
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The reckoning: ethnographic explorations of the ending of a friendship Règlement de comptes : explorations ethnographiques de la fin d'une amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Mockery as a tactic of destructive verbal communication in American political discourse

Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации, 2019
The aim of this paper is to analyze the communicative tactic of mockery in American political discourse. The problem of intensification of destructive elements in American political speech requires thorough investigation as political discourse becomes ...
Y. Y. Khlopotunov
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Opening the Door Wider to Community Support of People With Serious Mental Illnesses: What States Can Learn From the IDD Experience

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The federal government should provide states with authorities under Medicaid that allow greater use of home and community‐based services for people with serious and persistent mental illness. This requires deemphasizing authorities that require budget neutrality in a post‐institutionalization world (Section 1115 waivers) and relying on ...
HAROLD POLLACK, RICHARD FRANK, SHERRY GLIED   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pejoratives in Language of Ukrainian Periodicals [PDF]

, 2017
The research analyzes lexical items that give negative shades to the texts of Ukrainian periodicals, characterizes them by thematic groups, marks new lexical and semantic expressions of lexical items, which were activated under the influence of extra ...
Maryna Navalna, Navalna Maryna
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

The Impoliteness of Slurs and Other Pejoratives in Reported Speech

, 2020
Some linguistic expressions do not have only a referential component, through which they refer to something in the world, but also (or exclusively) a connotative component, through which they express a speaker’s attitudes or feelings toward that which ...
Frigerio Aldo, Tenchini Maria Paola
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

REPRESENTATIONS SOCIOLINGUISTIQUES ET DENOMINATION DES DIALECTES BERBERES EN ALGERIE

Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2014
Les mots berbères, tamazight, kabyle, chaoui, mozabite,… sont employés pour désigner une langue, un dialecte d’une langue ou des dialectes d’une même langue. Mais du point de vue linguistique la langue berbère standard n’existe pas.
Mourad BEKTACHE
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