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La désignation « politiquement correcte » des étrangers dans les manuels d’enseignement de l’allemand langue étrangère en France

open access: yesILCEA, 2021
This article examines designations used to describe foreign migratory groups in textbooks for German as a foreign language in French public high school.
Laure Gautherot
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Nominating Representatives of the Negroid Race in the English and Russian Languages: Lexicographic and Discursive Aspects

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2022
The article discusses the semantic and stylistic status of the English language words and word combinations nominating a representative of the Negroid race.
Ivan Samokhin   +2 more
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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2021
In a world increasingly trying to erase past inequalities and discriminations, words must communicate intent as much as ideas. We live in politically correct cultures, where unspoken rules of respectability govern conduct in cross-cultural interactions ...
Anamaria-Mirabela Pop, Monica-Ariana Sim
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Euphemism as a Mechanism of the Internal Workings of the Politically Correct Language

open access: yesGlobal Journal of Human-Social Science Research, 2019
As a social phenomenon, the politically correct is very recent and operate in the perspective of defending the individual rights of marginalized segments.
Reinaldo César Zanardi   +1 more
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Euphemism and Language Change: The Sixth and Seventh Ages

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2012
No matter which human group we look at, past or present, euphemism and its counterpart dysphemism are powerful forces and they are extremely important for the study of language change.
Kate Burridge
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Forbidden Words: Language Control and Victorian Political Correctness in Dickens and Carroll

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2021
This article examines Charles Dickens’s and Lewis Carroll’s representations of mechanisms of control over people’s – especially young people’s – language, imagination, and minds.
Benziman, Galia
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Language is power: anti-oppressive, conscious language in art therapy practice

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art Therapy, 2023
Language not only expresses but shapes how we understand the world, each other, and ourselves. Words serve a key role in maintaining cultural norms and values regarding which experiences and identities are considered valuable, normal, and powerful and ...
Alex Kapitan, L. Kapitan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Le langage inclusif en français et en allemand : une tempête dans un verre d’eau ?

open access: yesILCEA, 2021
This article discusses the ways in which inclusive language is employed in French and German. First, a synthesis is offered of the objections that this politically correct violation of the generic masculine rule raises in both linguistic areas.
Nathalie Schnitzer
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Tell it like it is: When politically incorrect language promotes authenticity.

open access: yesJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020
When a person's language appears to be political-such as being politically correct or incorrect-it can influence fundamental impressions of him or her. Political correctness is "using language or behavior to seem sensitive to others' feelings, especially
Michael Rosenblum, J. Schroeder, F. Gino
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Expressive Creativity of Euphemism and Dysphemism

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2012
Euphemism and dysphemism are two cognitive processes of conceptualisation, with countervalent effects (having the same base and resources but different aims and purposes), of a certain forbidden reality.
Miguel Casas Gómez
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