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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"swearing"”.
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Swearing in a public place
Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt das Vorkommen von Schimpfwörtern auf der online Plattform "Reddit". Die drei zugrundeliegenden Forschungsfragen sind: Wie oft werden Schimpfwörter benutzt? Wie werden diese von den Lesern aufgenommen? Beeinflusst das Thema einer Konversation die Reaktion der Leser …
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Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie
My dissertation “Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie” shows how the texts produced by Detection Club members Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie challenge assumptions about the value and …
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"Tha' sounds like me arse!": a comparison of the translation of expletives in two German translations of Roddy Doyle's "The commitments"
… (1995) coupled-pairs method. Instances of swearing in the novel are isolated according to the function they perform in an utterance and coupled with the corresponding target-text segments with the aim of identifying translational patterns by one or both translators. The results showed a …
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Expressions of psychological stress on Twitter: detection and characterisation
… of accuracy, precision, recall, and f-measure. Swearing and sarcasm were also analysed in high-stress and no-stress datasets from the four domains using a Convolutional Neural Network and Multilayer Perceptron, respectively. The presence of swearing and sarcasm was higher in the high-stress …
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda
… deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had mnemonic functions and likely closely resembled real performance, which lends further validity and benefit to this …
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… It focuses on wartime activities like swearing the Federal oath, illicit trade with the Union army, and Confederate desertion to show how Mississippians acted on co-existent loyalty layers to self, family, and friend-networks that were distinct from national allegiances. Although the …
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Blasphemy in England, c.1660-1730
… into two parts: chapters on ungodly behaviour, swearing in particular, and attending the theatre consider supposed expressions of practical blasphemy; then chapters on antitrinitarianism, Quakerism, and the denial of Christ's miracles investigate representations of speculative blasphemy. I argue …
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A corpus-based analysis of the discursive construction of gender identities via abusive language
… discourses involving terms of abuse and abusive swearing targeted at males and females. These discourses are analysed by utilising a combination of tools. Target descriptors and activation/passivation are used to examine the roles constructed for men and for women. Differential usage of abusive …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… particular subjects, namely: discourse markers, swearing and humour. This is to highlight the contrast between Chinese subtitlers' compliance with the traditional tendency to domesticate in Chinese translation and Chinese subtitling researchers' reliance on major Western translation theories …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… particular subjects, namely: discourse markers, swearing and humour. This is to highlight the contrast between Chinese subtitlers' compliance with the traditional tendency to domesticate in Chinese translation and Chinese subtitling researchers' reliance on major Western translation theories …
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Effects of learner disruptive behaviour on teaching and learning in Intermediate Phase schools in Vhembe East District, Limpopo Province
… attention seeking, late coming, making noise, swearing, disturbing others, fighting, and moving from one desk to the other, aggression, unacceptable behaviour and refusing to take instructions from the teachers. To handle learners showing disruptive behaviour, teachers used methods such as …
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Kenya and the ICC: the politics of the 2007 post-election violence
… declared Kibaki President, and rushed the swearing - in ceremony, skipping the stipulated 72 hours. Two days after declaring Kibaki president, Samuel Kivuitu, the chair of the ECK, admitted he did not know whether Kibaki had won the elections. He insisted that he had agreed to release the …
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Dementia caregiving: burden and breakdown
… behaviour problems - especially shouting, swearing and screaming, irritability and night disturbance; poor quality carer/dependant relationship; mood problems; perceived helpfulness of informal support; perceived impact of caregiving on dependant emotional well-being and, to a lesser …
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O assédio moral e a precarização das relações de trabalho
… at apprehending the meaning of the humiliations, swearing and ill treatment by taking into account the workers’ and the witnesses’ own speeches, the accounts of which, extracted from the lawsuits, have the potential to show the degree of exploitation endured by the workforce and the extent to …
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New direction for treating parent-adolescent conflict: comparison of problem solving skills training and social cognitive development training
… issues such as doing chores, tidy bedroom, swearing, going out, and homework. Also, higher conflict levels were associated with authoritarian parenting behaviours, lower perceptions of the parent-adolescent relationship, and poorer psychological well-being, but not with divergent conceptions …
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The use of <i>fuck</i>: A sociolinguistic approach to the usage of <i>fuck</i> in the BNC and blog authorship corpus
<p>The present study is a corpus-based approach using both the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Blog Authorship Corpus (BAC) to identify variance in spoken use of <em>fuck</em> between genders, age groups, and social classes. The resulting analysis shows that there is little variance in use …
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Child disruptive behaviour problems, problem perception and help-seeking behaviour
… abusive behaviour, assault, bullying, fighting, swearing, theft, criminal involvement, substance abuse, truancy and school dropouts. The participants were found to be able to perceive their child's problem behaviour and to perceive themselves to be competent parents in dealing with disruptive …
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L’interaction linguistique en français québécois et ses implications pour l’enseignement du FLE : une étude de l’usage des sacres en français québécois avec une comparaison interculturelle de l’usage des jurons en maltais
In the French-speaking world, the Canadian province of Quebec distinguishes itself through the use a varied set of swearwords inspired by the Roman Catholic religion (les sacres). In this study, these swearwords are approached from an interactionist viewpoint in order to establish a comparison …