Publications

Publication details [#54798]

Halmari, Helena. 2011. Political correctness, euphemism, and language change: The case of ‘people first’. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (3) : 828–840.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

euphemism | language change | language use | newspaper report | noun

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study explores to what extent the rise of postmodified nouns (e.g. people with disabilities instead of disabled people) since the early 1990s, widely adopted in the educational and psychological domains since, has been adopted in the Houston Chronicle (from 2002 to 2007) and in Google News.