While the organizers of the conference were wise in pointing out the difference between forced migration, population exchange and mass extermination aiming at genocide, and we havenít yet adopted a definition of the term "ethnic cleansing," I'd like to point out, however, that in my opinion the term is worse than euphemistic, it is misleading. It has nothing to do with cleanliness, purity, on t...

This paper presents results of a consumer health vocabulary study of text appearing on Web-based bulletin boards. Consumers used obscenities and euphemisms to refer to certain body parts, functions, and behaviors. The female genitalia are the body region most often described with an obscenity (29% of all instances); male genitalia, in contrast, were rendered as obscene only 3% of the time. Cons...

Background Assertive community treatment (ACT) has become one of the cornerstones of care for people with serious mental illnesses. ACT is usually conceptualized as incorporating a multidisciplinary team approach, active and persistent attempts to engage clients, direct provision of comprehensive health and social care, and in-vivo and out-of-hours working. In addition, the service is ongoing, ...

The purpose of this study is to describe that the Government Kuwait, through its official social media, uses a lot euphemistic and dysphemic language styles in conveying information era Covid-19 pandemic. This qualitative approach with content analysis understand symbolic messages contained documents, paintings, dances, songs, literary works, others as unstructured data. data collection techniq...

Statement of the problem. Euphemisms neutralize social discourse softening negative impact taboo topics that can cause public disapproval and anxiety. At present, military-political euphemisms are widely used in Russian media which known for their manipulativeness tendency to double standards, with help truth what is happening deliberately hidden. The purpose article analyze euphemism speech st...

Subtitling, which is a main type of Audiovisual translation (AVT), has only recently received considerable interest in the field studies. As far as Arabic language concerned, most studies have been conducted to discuss several problems subtitling English multimedia material including films into by amateur or professional subtitlers, while few carried out investigate English, especially problem ...