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Lexis: Journal in English LexicologyThe preliminary study presented in this article uses the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to study how the different meanings of the word “pussy” interrelate.
Aure Espilondo
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Antiracist Agency–Family Responses to Everyday and Structural Racism
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This paper introduces the concept of antiracist agency to examine how racially minoritized families actively navigate, resist, and challenge racism in everyday life. Background Although families play a central role in ethno‐racial socialization and identity formation of their children, less attention has been paid to how they respond
Ruta Yemane
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, 2016 Slurs are typically defined as conveying contempt based on group-membership. However, here I argue that they are not a unitary group. First, I describe two dimensions of variation among derogatives: how targets are identified, and how offensive the term ...
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
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Who Perpetrates? Gender‐Based Violence and Harassment Against Women on Cambodia's Construction Sites
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most studies of gender‐based violence and harassment (GBVH) focus on white‐collar women's experiences of sexual harassment in highly regulated workplaces in the Global North. However, globally most women work in far less controlled settings. One such setting is Cambodia, where work on construction sites is highly informal.
Michele Ford, Vichhra Mouyly
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Pour une lecture continue de Hugo Dingler
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2014 Given the considerable interest in certain aspects of Hugo Dingler’s thought, esp. for foundational questions of the experimental sciences, on the one hand, and the national-socialist slurs in his publications and activities from 1933 through 1945, the ...
Norbert Schappacher
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TopoiWhen we think of slurs in English – like the N-word, the F-word, and others – we tend to think of nouns rather than verbs or adjectives. This is probably not an accident: paradigm examples of slurs are indeed nominal in nature, and slurs exhibit a cross-linguistically robust tendency to concentrate in the grammatical class of nouns. But why?
Schaden, Gerhard, Gasparri, Luca
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The international mobility of nurses is a significant component of healthcare systems worldwide, resulting in the global recruitment and adaptation of culturally and linguistically diverse nurses into diverse work environments. CALD nurses face integration challenges, which can potentially compromise their well‐being and adjustment ...
Judith Yabal +3 more
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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The Case of ‘Autistic’: Pejorative Uses and Reclamation
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyIn addition to its descriptive uses, ‘autistic’—originally a medical label—is also used pejoratively (against ingroups and outgroups), and has recently been proudly reclaimed, especially in connection with neurodiversity movements. This phenomenon raises
Bianca Cepollaro +2 more
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