Abstract Brazil has advanced in tobacco control actions, with a significant decline the prevalence of use. However, it is essential to identify more vulnerable populations, such as LGBT persons. This study aimed analyze discursive production sustaining search for support and penetration industry among population, taking sponsorship Philip Morris Brasil parade São Paulo 2019. We employed critica...

Genocide has been the leading cause of preventable violent death in the 20th–21st century, taking even more lives than war. The term ‘ethnic cleansing’ is used as a euphemism for genocide despite it having no legal status. Like ‘Judenrein’ in Nazi Medicine, it expropriates pseudo-medical terminology to justify massacre. Use of the term dehumanizes the victims as sources of filth and disease, pr...

OBJECTIVE To describe trainee healthcare professionals' preferred terms when talking about obesity, their beliefs about initiating discussions about weight, and their confidence about consulting with obese people. METHODS A self-completed questionnaire collected data on demographics, preferred terms, beliefs about initiation of discussions, confidence and training needs from 1036 pre-registra...

In modern practice, doctors who outright lie to their patients are often condemned, yet those who employ non-lying deceptions tend to be judged less critically. Some areas of non-disclosure have recently been challenged: not telling patients about resuscitation decisions; inadequately informing patients about risks of alternative procedures and withholding information about medical errors. Desp...

IN the year 1729, Mary Webb, a girl of fifteen, was apprenticed by the overseers of the Parish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex to Mrs Anne Saint of St Leonard's Shoreditch, Surgeoness. The indenture (Figure 1) bound the girl for seven years, during which time the mistress was to teach her the art.' But what was a "surgeoness", and what art did she teach? The term suggests a female surgeon,...

The notion of community utilized by planners and healthcare providers is doubly deceptive. On the one hand, it presupposes apparent equality and absence of conflicts between people in the same population group. On the other hand, it supposes a certain possibility of intervention by healthcare services in relation to behavioral patterns that are considered undesirable, from the point of view of ...

In our modern life, the introduction of new technologies and subsequent boom in satellites, television, as well as the Internet has made the world a much smaller place allowing different nations, cultures, and languages to interact more frequently. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is cultural and ideological items which taboo terms are included. This study aims at investig...

On March 11, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) declares Covid-19 disease as global pandemic. Accordingly, the style of linguistic or verbal communication between governments and nations has been highly affected. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate resources where X-phemistic expressions come characteristics speeches Saudi Minister during Moreover, it examines how Warren's euphemistic ...

<p class="normal"><em>This is descriptive-qualitative research which focuses on the analysis of translation taboo expressions movie entitled Deadpool 2 and aims to find out (i) types in (ii) techniques used by two different translators from platforms translate expressions.</em></p><p class="normal"><em></em><em> A total 167 data were found classif...

Birçok dilde var olan örtmece (euphemism) kavramı Türkçede de kimi sözcüklerin kullanımı sırasında doğabilecek ayıp, günah veya korku gibi duyguların ve olumsuz çağrışımların önüne geçmek için meydana gelen bir dil olayıdır. Örtmece söz kullanımındaki amaç, ifade esnasında rahatsızlık uyandırabilecek sözlerin yerine daha farklı güzel sözler kullanmaktır. Burada yapılan anlaşılmamak ya da anlamı...