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... euphemisms . ( Patriarchal medicine continues to fight legitimating midwives . ) Doctors " de- liver babies , ” women “ are delivered of ” them . Women “ carry a fetus to term , " are " in labor , " " have labor pains , " " have ...
... euphemisms . ( Patriarchal medicine continues to fight legitimating midwives . ) Doctors " de- liver babies , ” women “ are delivered of ” them . Women “ carry a fetus to term , " are " in labor , " " have labor pains , " " have ...
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... euphemism is one device for avoiding what- ever realities they wish to deny . Neil Postman has maintained that " euphemisms are a means through which a culture may alter its imagery and by doing so change its style , its priorities ...
... euphemism is one device for avoiding what- ever realities they wish to deny . Neil Postman has maintained that " euphemisms are a means through which a culture may alter its imagery and by doing so change its style , its priorities ...
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... Euphemism may properly fail as a way to describe people who are dis- abled , but in other areas of our lives , equally insupportable euphemistic expressions proliferate . In my analysis of sex - specific nouns and verbs , I showed how ...
... Euphemism may properly fail as a way to describe people who are dis- abled , but in other areas of our lives , equally insupportable euphemistic expressions proliferate . In my analysis of sex - specific nouns and verbs , I showed how ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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