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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Euphemism"”.
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Investigating the Translation of Euphemism in the Quran from Arabic into English
… the Quran from Arabic into English, focusing on euphemism. It evaluated the degree of faithfulness or deviation in meaning from the original and corroborated whether this is due to the translating approach or inadequate understanding of the meaning of Quranic text. It assessed the main features …
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Face Management and the Role of Interpersonal Politeness Variables in Euphemism Production and Comprehension
Nine experiments investigated euphemism in conversation using Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory framework. In Experiments 1--3, undergraduate students read short scenarios that depicted a hypothetical, unfinished conversation between two interlocutors about a taboo topic; in Experiment …
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Palliative sedation : the development of a policy and guidelines for the use of Palliative sedation for refractory symptoms in dying patients at Sungardens Hospice, Pretoria
… suspicion that terminal sedation is actually a euphemism for euthanasia. Ventafridda's report in 1990 that 52% of moribund patients required sleep-inducing sedation to control physical suffering, stimulated a lot of discussion in palliative care circles with many physicians being surprised at …
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The Celibate Christ: A Suggestive Reading of John 20:17 μή μου ἅπτου οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα (“Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended”)
… hypothesis is that “Do not touch me” is a sexual euphemism that John uses in the narrative to refer obliquely to the celibate state of Jesus. “For I have not yet ascended” refers to the entry of Jesus into the anticipated angelic life where physical desire will no longer exist. John’s purpose in …
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Lietuvių kalbos eufemizmai: raiška ir motyvacija /
The object of the thesis is Lithuanian euphemisms that are related to animals and human beings and their environment. Studies on euphemisms are not extensive in Lithuania, however, there are individual articles on contemporary euphemisms or certain groups of euphemisms. There are very few extensive …
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Marginación socio-espacial: Programas de rehabilitación de patologías estructurales en el polígono de viviendas del barrio Besòs de Barcelona
… bank) makes the concept of rehabilitation a "euphemism" for their real estate goals. The compared to the institutional proposals of rehabilitation further explains the inability of an community dynamic transformation of their habitat. Methodological seeks to privilege the action-participation …
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The State of the Anti-Union Address: A Rhetorical Critique of Select Service Worker Training Methods
… of high turnover rates, rhetoric, and use of euphemism. Global corporations are likened to "superfiefdoms," with service workers equated to modern serfs. If the world has evolved into supercorporations, it is argued then that the Publix employee-owned model may be the best approach and the …
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Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland
… It focuses on the designation as a political euphemism, and on the ways literary texts reconstitute the realities and lived experiences that these legal instruments elide. The study covers a wide range of fiction, poetry and film, from canonical poets Seamus Heaney and Agha Shahid Ali to …
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Whoring the mermaid: the study of South Korean hostess film (1974-1982)
… women in South Korean Hostess (ho-sŭ-t'e-sŭ’: a euphemism for prostitutes or bar girls in the Korean context of the 1970s and 1980s) films. This body of films is not only characterized for the exploitive employment of female sexuality but more importantly for the theme of women’s extreme and …
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A stylistic analysis of Oshiwambo wedding songs in a book entitled Oshipapa Moonkuluhedhi by Petrus Mbenzi
… level, the study identified simile, metaphor, euphemism, anti-thesis and enjambment as the stylistic and linguistic features that were analysed in Oshiwambo wedding songs. This study contributes to the study of literature, specifically a stylistic analysis of Oshiwambo. The knowledge acquired …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… By emphasizing his narrator's proclivity towards euphemism and pastiche, Ishiguro intimates that, in an era of mechanical and genetic reproduction, reliance on perspectives formed in past and imagined futures can be quite deadly. The fourth chapter analyzes Ian McEwan's post 9/11 novel, …
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Speech acts and their rhetorical purposes in the Namibian parliamentary discourse, 2015-2016
… address and titles, parallelism, sarcasm euphemism, antithesis, buzzwords and exordium were employed by MPs in attempt to define situations, give recognition, produce good sounding words, create humour, create benevolence, give effect of balance, gain trust, and praise, respectively. This …
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An investigation into combating money laundering in banks and financial institutions in the city of London and British Overseas and Crown Dependent Territories
… study, the phrase “City of London” is used as a euphemism for the broader UK financial sector and economy, rather than solely referring to the geographic “Square Mile.” This approach follows common usage in financial and legal scholarship, where the term functions as shorthand for the UK’s global …
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The Naval Forces of the Irish State, 1922-1977
… defence during the Emergency, the uniquely Irish euphemism for the Second World War. Its many constituent parts were responsible for the patrolling of Irish territorial waters, minesweeping operations and the surveillance of shipping around the Irish coast and those merchant ships which entered …
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Euphemistic rhetoric in advertising during the Comstock Era: the importance of persona and cultural context in the Lysol case
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Lysol douche was the best-selling form of birth control in the U.S.; it was used by women from all socio-economic backgrounds. This dissertation examines the Lysol douche campaign that ran in Hearst’s Cosmopolitan and McCall’s during the 1920s and 1930s, which …
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The Goffal Speaks: Coloured Ideology and the Perpetuation of a Category in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
… (NP) in 1948, the term "community" was used as a euphemism for racial exclusion. Official categories that were clearly racial were commonly designated "communities": the Indian community, the Coloured community, the white community, and the black community. The NP relied heavily on the idea on …
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Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words and their significance in Rwandan culture
This study investigates Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words and their meaning in Rwandan culture to enable the youth to improve their communication and the values of Rwandan culture. It explores whether the use of Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words is a good way to communicate with one another or is …
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A sociolinguistic study of euphemisms on HIV and aids by Manenberg’s youth and adults
… AIDS messages and investigates whether such euphemisms are dependent on age and gender. This study also evaluates the politeness strategies employed by the youths and adults as means to de-taboo taboo talk related to HIV and AIDS
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… Sterne the artist employs the subtle art of euphemism, in deference to his reader’s acumen and taste, as concealed reference, pun, and <em>reductio ad absurdum</em> multiply his mockery of the tubs of literalism and weighty abstraction. Sterne the critic delivers the tubs of his own …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …