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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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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]
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
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
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
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
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
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Le langage inclusif en français et en allemand : une tempête dans un verre d’eau ?
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.
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
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The Expressive Creativity of Euphemism and Dysphemism
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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