Afrophobia, “black on black” violence and the new racism in South Africa: the nexus between adult education and mutual co-existence by David Addae, Kofi Poku Quan-Baffour

“…Anchored on labels such as “makwerekwere” (a derogatory word used to describe African migrants in the country) and “foreigner”, such sentiments have unfortunately resulted in waves of violent attacks on African migrants leading to loss of lives and properties. …”
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Une nouvelle génération féministe au sein de l’islam traditionaliste : Une exception indonésienne ? by Andrée Feillard, Pieternella van Doorn-Harder

“…Deeply rooted in Islamic knowledge and being connected to a wide network of Islamic education, they represent a unique, indigenous form of Islamic feminism defending their own cause, no longer that of the men.We argue that this pivotal role played in Indonesia by feminists of Traditionalist Islam is partly due to the low profile of secular feminists who have been intimidated by special historical circumstances, the suppression of the left in 1965 and the derogatory discourse concerning Muslims with Hindu-Buddhist background in Java, delegitimized as belonging to the “abangan” category. …”
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There From the Start: Aboriginal Involvement in the Early Development of Australian Archaeology by Matthew Spriggs, Lynette Russell

“…While it is certainly the case that Indigenous Australians have suffered the consequences of being treated in an objectifying and derogatory fashion during the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries by archaeologists and others, they were not mere observers of the creation of a 65,000-year narrative of their history that has become important in the modern story of Australia. …”
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Sexual Harassment During a Pandemic and The Legal Consequences It Causes by Muhammad Fahd Rosyid Adizza

“…Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to: sexual payments for wanting something, coercion of sexual activity, derogatory statements about sexual orientation or sexuality, requests for sexual favors by the perpetrator, speech or behavior that has a sexual connotation; all can be classified as sexual harassment. …”
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INVENTORY OF PUBLIC GOODS. CURRENT REGULATION AND NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES by Dan Constantin MÂȚĂ

“…Public goods have a derogatory legal regime from common law based on the general public interest that the administration has the mission to accomplish. …”
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An exploratory study examining the relationship between sexual self efficacy and premature ejaculation mediated by depression, anxiety and sexual fantasy among a British cohort by Banbury, Samantha, Moneta, Giovanni B., Chandler, Chris

“…Sexual fantasies further differed between PE and non-PE groups where ‘self-derogatory’ sexual fantasies such as “embarrassment due to failure of a sex act” were commonly reported among the PE group. …”

“Single, seventies, and stuck”: a discourse analysis of the “leftover women” or Sheng Nu in China in the blogosphere by Murti, Desideria Cempaka Wijaya

“…The government of China introduced the lexicon of “leftover women,” or sheng nu, to publicly signify the “eligible but unmarried women between age 27 to 35” in 2010. Although it was a derogatory lexicon against women, but some researchers have argued that sheng nu is a sign of women’s emancipation because these women usually have successful careers. …”
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COVID-19 pandemic: euphemism and dysphemism in Jordanian Arabic by Olimat, Sameer Naser

“…Euphemism is an acceptable expression used instead of an offensive one to avoid unpleasant connotations, while dysphemism is a derogatory expression with negative suggestions used instead of neutral or polite one to attack something or someone. …”
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Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods by Tracey Chirara, Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale

“…African feminist research has highlighted how this philosophy can be derogatory, stereotyped and oppressive to women if it is naïvely used in domestic contexts. …”
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PUBLICISTIC REPERTOIRE OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (civil war in Ukraine in Russian mass media) by S. G. Shulezhkova, N. V. Pozdnyakova

“…New meanings are usually formed through metaphor and metonymy. Derogatory names appear for realia on both sides of the armed conflict: e.g., names and nicknames of armed conflict participants: military leaders, political figures; military units, operations, weapons. …”
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The Functions of Principle as the Basis of Court Decision in Hard Cases by Peter Machmudz Marzuki

“…Second, the principle has the derogatory function to supersede a statutory provision. …”
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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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Countering Discourses of Derision: Moving towards Action in Teacher Education in the USA and Sweden by Katarina Blennow, Martin Malmström, Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle

“…Telling our stories opened space for us to use our emotions to take a line to and resist the derogatory discourse, engage in the political, and move closer to becoming teacher educator activists.…”
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BREE-HD: A Transformer-Based Model to Identify Threats on Twitter by Sinchana Kumbale, Smriti Singh, G. Poornalatha, Sanjay Singh

“…BREE-HD performs extraordinarily well with an accuracy of 97% when trained on the dataset we developed to detect threats from a collection of derogatory tweets. To provide insight into how BREE-HD makes classifications, we apply explainable A.I. …”
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Sexualization and Dehumanization of Women by Social Media Users in Namibia by Bruno Venditto, Beatha Set, Rachel Ndinelao Amaambo

“…Narratives from social media, such as Facebook and Twitter of public figures of Namibian women, were presented to justify cases of insulting and derogatory language. They expose the implications of sexualisation and dehumanisation of women’s human rights and freedom to participate actively in both public and social media spaces, and its potential to perpetuate gender-based violence in Namibia. …”
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The Xenology of the Powder Keg of Europe: the Reflection of the Peculiarities of Own — Alien Dichotomy in the Balkan Model of the World in the Xenopejorative Vocabulary of the Lang... by E. V. Romanin

“…Based on the analysis of the internal history of the word, an attempt is made to define the main models for constructing derogatory names for strangers in order to compare the data for various Balkan languages and, to the extent possible, build an integral image of the concept of alien in the Balkan conceptual worldview. …”
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The institutional impact after enacting student solutions to decrease barriers in reporting unprofessional behaviors by Prateek Bhattacharya, Jaden Kohn, George Polson, Georgene Hergenroeder, Philip Lupo, Anne Gill

“…In Year Two, students were more likely to report misconduct related to derogatory remarks about patients (p<0.01) and informed consent (p<0.01). …”
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From German to Yiddish: adaptation strategies in the Kuhbukh and the Siben weisen mainster bichel by Juillard-Maniece, J

“…<p>In light of often derogatory and unqualified assessments of Yiddish literature adapted from German narrative models, this thesis will propose a different approach to viewing these adaptations. …”

Former Muslims’ socio-religious discourse on social media : a speech acts analysis by Radzuwan Ab Rashid, Almekhlafy, Sultan Saleh Ahmad, Muhammad Yasir Malik, Hassam Ahmad Hashmi

“…This study concludes that the social media affordances enabled the former Muslims living in Islamic countries to perform speech acts and construct derogatory discourse on Islam. Further the strategic speech acts identified demonstrate former Muslims’ tendency, capacity and intention of challenging religious, especially Islamic, authoritative discourse.…”
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Negotiating Irvin Yalom’s existential concerns through the grotesque in selected works of Oscar Wilde and Yukio Mishima by Seach, Jin Beng

“…Finally, it also suggests that the grotesque can go beyond its general derogatory meaning and conventional function as a literary tool. …”
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