Impolite Communication Practices as a Community-Building Tool in Sports News Comments by Valery A. Shulginov, Kirill A. Alyansky

“…The frequency distribution of impoliteness strategies revealed that users often tended to assert power through personal characterization of their opponents, e.g., agism, sarcasm, hypercorrect speech behavior, identity attacks via derogatory team nominations, etc. The analysis identified various conflict strategies employed to form derogatory nominations, as well as defined the socio-cultural characteristics that marked the addressee as a target of conflictladen speech behavior.…”
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Die Zeitschrift „Raumforschung und Raumordnung“ (RuR) von 1936 bis 1944 als Medium akademischer Forschung im „Dritten Reich“ by Oliver Werner

“…This paper addresses the importance of the journal for the mobilization and self-mobilization of academic personnel as well as the role as a mouthpiece for racist, antisemitic, and culturally derogatory views, which were an important basis for the genocide of European Jews and the destruction of Central and Eastern Europe- and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. …”
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Configuration spatiale et violence Dans Des rêves et des assassins de Malika Mokeddem by Leila Moussedek

“…Through the city of Oran, the author represents the Algerian space of the 90s, defined by its cruelty, its terror and by its multiple internal and external faces that are often negative and derogatory for the characters; thus spatiality is no longer a simple decor that adopts a mimetic role but it contributes to the writing and dramatization of the story and “becomes an agent of fiction”. …”
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Бокачовски опис избора папе као рефлексија Халкокондиловог става према папству и Флорентинској унији у делу Ἀποδείξεις Ἱστοριῶν... by Darko Krstić

“…By placing these two bizarre episodes – with the common subject being looking at the genitals of the protagonists through the hole in the bed – one after another, Chalcocondyles presents both the ritual of the election of the new pontiff of Rome and the sexual scandals of the ruling family of Ferrara in a highly contemptuous and derogatory way. Chalcocondyles is neither impartial regarding the Union nor siding with the Orthodox party, but he is certainly even more distanced from any pro-unionist position.…”
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Лингвистика и политика: русизмы в англоязычной полемике Запада с Россией by Виктор Владимирович Кабакчи

“…Наиболее ярко подобное отношение к русизмам проявляется на примере заимствования Russki, которое лексикографы даже сопровождают пометой «derogatory». Русизмы этого типа, которые ненадолго задерживаются в русском языке, перестают отмечаться соответствующими пометами и английскими лексикографами, переходя в разряд историзмов (monolith) и/или растворяясь в семантике соответствующего английского слова (norm). …”
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Extent and types of gender-based discrimination against female medical students and physicians at five university hospitals in Germany – results of an online survey by Tameling, Jan-Filip, Lohöfener, Mareike, Bereznai, Judith, Tran, Thi Phuong Anh, Ritter, Marie, Boos, Margarete

“…Their experiences fell into five main categories: sexual harassment with subcategories of verbal and physical, discrimination based on existing/possible motherhood with subcategories of structural and verbal, direct preference for men, direct neglect of women, and derogatory treatment based on gender.Conclusion: The study contributes to filling the aforementioned research gap. …”
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