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Ethnic Slurs as War Names in the Zimbabwean Liberation War

Names, 2007
The Zimbabwean war of liberation raged from 1966 until 1979. During that time many combatants assumed (or were given) noms de guerre. From a collection of more than 4800 of these war names we found that ethnic slurs comprised 9% of the total. One name in
Lawrie A. Barnes, Charles Pfukwa
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Breathe, Eat, Talk: Three Essential Ingredients to Quality‐of‐Life Outcomes in Movement Disorders

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Breathing, eating, and talking (BET) impairments are common yet frequently underrecognized features of movement disorders. Deficits in respiration, swallowing, voice, and speech may emerge early in the course of a disease, adversely affecting safety, participation, and quality of life.
John Dean, Lena C. O’Flynn, Michelle Ciucci, Cynthia Fox, Jessica E. Huber, Supraja Anand, Maira Rozenfeld Olchik, Jibrin S. Usman, Adam P. Vogel, Bettina Aguiar, Diana Khasanova, Dharshini Manoharan, Lorraine Ramig, Angela Roberts, Federico Rodriguez‐Porcel, Kristina Simonyan, Julie M. Barkmeier‐Kraemer   +16 more
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Provocative insinuations

Daimon, 2021
In this paper we analyse utterances that, without explicitly constituting hate speech, nevertheless convey a hateful message. For example, in the headline ‘Iraqi Refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl’, the presence of ...
Álvaro Domínguez Armas, Andres Soria Ruiz   +1 more
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The Evolving Understanding of Slurs: An Inquiry into Meaning and Effect of Slurs

Croatian Journal of Philosophy
In this précis, we summarize the key themes and arguments of the Inflammatory Language: Its Linguistics and Philosophy.
Stojnić, Una, Lepore, Ernie
openaire   +1 more source

The “We” and “Me” of Identity in Hazardous Industry Organizations: Face Work Tactics Among Practicing Engineers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen, Jan Hayes, Michael James Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slurs Without Neutral Counterparts

Slurs are offensive words used about people on account of them belonging to certain groups,for example based on gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity.
Isak, Bengtsson
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
wiley   +1 more source

Slurred Speech: How the NLRB Tolerates Racism

Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2018
Racist speech in union representation elections is widespread and conflicts with the protections of Title VII for diverse employees across different industries.
Michael H. LeRoy
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‘Why didn't you bring us a pumpkin?’ Relational recognition of caste, class, and tribe in rural Andhra Pradesh, India « Pourquoi ne nous as‐tu pas apporté de citrouille ? » Reconnaissance relationnelle de la caste, de la classe et de la tribu dans les zones rurales de l'Andhra Pradesh (Inde)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
wiley   +1 more source

How is the reclamation of slurs perceived in Italian?

Linguistik Online
This study presents a sociolinguistic survey that investigates how the reclamation of LGBT+ slurs is perceived in Italian. Reclamation refers to the practice of repurposing historically derogatory terms into expressions of identity, pride, solidarity ...
Andrea Marra, Chiara Ferrando, Lia Draetta, Bianca Cepollaro, Viviana Patti   +4 more
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