La marginalisation des organisations paysannes (OP) : analyse des conditions de politisation et de syndicalisation du mouvement paysan au Burkina Faso by Alkassoum Maiga

“…There is in filigree of this attitude, the idea that the peasant is that to that it is necessary all to think and all to decide.In the social stratification of Burkina Faso the peasantry is a social layer pejoratively connoted. The alienation of farming organizations takes foot in such context. …”
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In search of a “sweet spot:” Can understanding how language influences intimidation maximize the quality of valued compliance? by Hansia Mohemmad, Dunbar Norah E., Giles Howard

“…Intimidation is often defined, received, and perceived pejoratively. The current study sets out to find a “sweet spot” in situations where intimidation cannot be avoided and compliance is the goal, where one can maximize compliance but keep fear as low as possible. …”
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Occidentalism at War: Al-Qaida’s Resistance Rhetoric by Christopher Sims

“…Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a barbarian other. …”
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Опыт описания кулинарной фразеологии в норвежском и русском языке<br>(Russian and Norwegian culinary expressions) by Olga Komarova

“…The author argues that the universal character of metaphorical changes makes itself evident in a large number of expressions containing either verbs connected with cooking or naming products and dishes used as characteristics of a human being or human actions, great number of them being used pejoratively. The author argues that the study of the structure and semantics of these phraseological units can also be of great help in getting a better command of the culture and history of the country and its language.…”
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Prejudice and Presupposition in Offensive Language by Carlo Penco

“…My aim here is to connect what is called a “presuppositional point of view” on pejoratives to the topic of prejudice. At the same time, I want to develop some hints given by Flavio Baroncelli, a political philosopher and colleague who offered some provocative suggestions on the educative role of politically correct language. …”
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De la Terreur au terrorisme : une histoire lexicographique du mot « terrorisme » et de sa famille morphologique au xixe siècle by Corentin Sire

“…First coined in 1794 to retrospectively and pejoratively refer to the period known as la Terreur, the concept of terrorism soon became a label designating any revolutionary considered as overly radical. …”
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The Norwegian lexical item akkurat and the Polish akurat: a cognitive semantic analysis by Ewa Data-Bukowska

“…Within this theoretical framework I shall demonstrate that subjectification/intersubjectification and pejoration/melioration motivate the main semantic difference between akkurat and akurat. …”
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The Primacy of the Mother Tongue: Aboriginal literacy and Non-Standard English by Margaret Zeegers, Wayne Muir, Zheng Lin

“…Abstract This article describes Indigenous Australian languages as having a history of pejoration dating from colonial times, which has masked the richness and complexity of mother tongues (and more recently developed kriols) of large numbers of Indigenous Australians.The paper rejects deficit theory representations of these languages as being inferior to imported dialects of English and explains how language issues embedded in teaching practices have served to restrict Indigenous Australian access to cultural capital most valued in modern socio-economic systems. …”
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Identidades y actitudes en el contacto entre el árabe y el español medieval y su reflejo en algunos cambios semánticos by Javier GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ

“…L’approche linguistique nous permettra de relever, dans la période où se produit l’emprunt de l’arabe vers l’espagnol, certains changements sémantiques, comme la péjoration, des changements de nature métonymique ou les changements provoqués par la méconnaissance culturelle qui révèlent un défaut de compréhension et de respect de la culture chrétienne-romane envers la culture arabo-andalouse.…”
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Diversité floristique des peuplements ligneux du Ferlo, Sénégal by Ndiaye Ousmane, Diallo Aly, Sagna Moustapha Bassimbé, Guissé Aliou

“…The combined effect of the pejoration climate and anthropogenic pressure caused a progressive degradation of Sahel natural resources. …”
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LINGUO-STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NOVEL UNDER THE PEELING CEILING BY GORAN PETROVIĆ by Marija S. Nedeljković

“…The specificity of the novel on the lexical level is shown by the use of expressive lexis (onymic lexis, creations, loanwords, deverbative nouns, diminutives/ hypocoristics, exclamations, pejoratives). The aforementioned language features formed the style of Goran Petrović's narration in the novel Under the peeling ceiling. …”
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Turbidité et risques dans le bassin versant de la Doubégué (Burkina Faso) by Élodie Robert

“…Since the 80s, it has witnessed significant environmental changes mainly due to societal evolutions (arrival of new populations, population growth, reservoir creation, exacerbation of the conflicts linked to the land property, and agrarian reform) and secondarily to climatic pejoration. The central parameter selected to study these changes and understand the current processes is water turbidity. …”
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Semantic Change on Imitative Slang Used by Indonesian Netizen by Putu Weddha Savitri, Anak Agung Sagung Shanti Sari Dewi

“…The result showed that there are a widening or expansion of meaning, metaphor, hyperbole, and degeneration or pejoration of meaning through these slang words.…”
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Good Prejudice. A Passing Foray in Intellectual History by Giorgio Baruchello

“…It is difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint the exact time when the pejoration of “prejudice” occurred. Nor can “prejudice” be understood once and for all as being exclusively a poorly formed opinion, an unreasonable belief, a false judgement, a sentiment, an assumption dictated or corrupted by sentiment, a bad behaviour, or an admixture of them, at least as far as intellectual history is concerned. …”
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Le héros juvénile choukrien et les avatars de la sexualité : vers une déconstruction du héros positif ? by Kessé Edmond N’GUETTA

“…Toutes ces pratiques péjoratives l’inscrivent résolument dans la déconstruction de la figure du héros juvénile positif, jusque-là absente dans la littérature romanesque maghrébine. …”

Workers and artisans, the binders and the bound: craftsmen and notions of craftsmanship in Old English literature by Alff, D, Diane Alff

“…I show that, on the level of semantics, mirroring the above pattern, there are concurrent shifts in the meanings of two of the main terms for craftsmanship, and that notably <em>searo</em> is subject to pejoration in the process of transition from a poetic to a prose term, while <em>cræft</em>, on the other hand, witnesses a number of semantic changes to make it a versatile and uniquely positive expression of craftsmanship. …”

INVECTIVE IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION: PRAGMATIC AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS by Garaeva Leyla Mirzanurovna

“…In case the cursive language and abusive vocabulary function as discursive conventions in a professional community the degree of their invectiveness is gradually blurring and decreasing in comparison with the same words used in the national discourse where taboos and restrictions are much more severe. Pejoratively connotated words, collocations, idioms are fulfilling mainly emphatic and esoteric functions. …”
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The Civil Code of Andrés Bello and the exegetical movement in Colombia by Andrés Botero Bernal

“…Likewise, it relates the above to the emergence of the Colombian exegetical movement, close to –as well as different– from the movement of French commentators on the Civil Code of 1804, a movement that will be called, pejoratively in the 20th century, as “exegesis”. Now, this work is justified by the importance of articulating, due to the potentialities that this allows, the legal history with the comparative law, remembering that both disciplines had common origins. …”
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Undertaking Empirically-Engaged African Philosophy: The Development and Validation of the African Time Inventory by Aïda C. Terblanché-Greeff, Petrus Nel

“…As this term is often used pejoratively, it is cardinal to break down stigmatization and create cultural awareness regarding this unique time orientation. …”
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The language question under Napoleon by McCain, S, Stewart McCain

“…<p>From the campaign waged by Revolutionaries like Barère and the Abbé Grégoire against those regional languages they referred to pejoratively as 'patois', to the educational policies of Jules Ferry a century later, successive governments of France engaged in a broadly successful struggle to force the French to speak French. …”