Search results for "Euphemism"

Opportunities and challenges for drug development: public-private partnerships, adaptive designs and big data

2016

Drug development faces the double challenge of increasing costs and increasing pressure on pricing. To avoid that lack of perceived commercial perspective will leave existing medical needs unmet, pharmaceutical companies and many other stakeholders are discussing ways to improve the efficiency of drug Research and Development. Based on an international symposium organized by the Medical School of the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and held in January 2016, we discuss the opportunities and challenges of three specific areas, i.e., public-private partnerships, adaptive designs and big data. Public-private partnerships come in many different forms with regard to scope, duration and typ…

Violence Through Words: Cultural Aspects and Performative Agency

2020

This chapter aims at describing the ways and ploys used by words (in the various public and private contexts where they define relations) conveying a form of symbolic violence aimed at classifying genders as they play out their respective identity roles. To this end, the author refers to “euphemized discourse” (Bourdieu, 1993) and the concept of “agency” (Duranti, Etnopragmatica. La forza nel parlare. Carocci Editore, Rome, Italy, 2007) in order to describe the process of naturalization of discursive practices geared towards affirmation of the androcentric system of language. Here, a variant of Mediterranean culture which remains patriarchal and sexist is examined by means of discourse anal…

La dimensión social del lenguaje como una oportunidad educativa para la promoción del diálogo intercultural en el aula de Educación Superior

2021

[EN] For some time, it has been considered the need to approach the educational experience to the student sociocultural reality in the context of a classroom in Higher Education. This need is even more evident in the context of international exchange programs, in which the main objective is precisely to provide a space for mutual enrichment between the student's culture of origin and the host culture. In this sense, the “Grup d’Acompanyament Lingüístic” (GRUPal) works to promote the intercultural dialogue that inevitably and spontaneously takes place in and outside the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to present a didactic intervention based on inclusion and cooperative exchange as w…

Le parole della violenza. Recrudescenze mediterranee di patriarcalismo e sessismo

2016

l capitolo ha lo scopo di descrivere i modi e gli escamotages con cui le parole, nei diversi contesti pubblici e privati in cui definiscono le relazioni, veicolano un portato di violenza simbolica mirante a classificare i generi performandone le rispettive identità. A tale scopo l’autrice fa riferimento al “discorso eufemizzato (Bourdieu 1993) e al concetto di “agentività” (Duranti 2007), per descrivere la procedura di naturalizzazione di pratiche discorsive volta ad affermare il sistema androcentrico della parola. Sullo sfondo i retaggi di una cultura mediterranea ancora patriarcale e sessista, passata in rassegna attraverso l’analisi discorsiva di alcuni racconti di Camilleri e l’individu…

Euphemisms and their translation in situational comedy

1999

Names of Snakes in Latvian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

2020

Names of Snakes in Latvian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries This article analyses the naming of snakes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Latvian texts which are taken from the Corpus of Early Written Latvian Texts, containing the first Latvian dictionaries, religious texts, and some secular texts. The objective of the paper is to try to determine how precisely the translators of religious texts rendered names of snakes, and to ascertain whether any semantic changes have taken place, or whether religious texts show specific use. The study also aims to find out if taboo of dangerous animals, snakes in particular, and related euphemisation is reflected in early Latvian text…

Discourse on racism in The Independent

1999

Thou shalt not write about... : a study of taboo content in Finnish EFL textbooks for upper secondary school

2012

Tabu on käsitteenä monimuotoinen ja vaikeasti määriteltävä, johtuen sekä niiden jatkuvasta muuttumisesta, valtavasta määrästä että niiden osittaisesta kulttuurisidonnaisuudesta. Tabuja ja tabukielen esiintymistä oppimateriaaleissa on tutkittu erittäin vähän, tutkimuksen keskittyessä lähinnä määrittelemään, mitkä aiheet ovat teoriassa tabuja maailmanlaajuisissa englannin kielen oppimateriaaleissa. Myös mahdolliset riskit, jotka liittyvät tabujen sisällyttämiseen oppimateriaaleihin ovat olleet tutkimuksen kohteena. Varsinainen empiirinen tutkimus tabujen esiintyvyydestä oppikirjoissa on kuitenkin jäänyt vähemmälle huomiolle. Tutkielmamme keskittyikin juuri tähän tutkimattomaan alueeseen. Tutk…