Euphemization regarding sexually-loaded texts should not merely be considered as a translator’s personal choice, but an alternative strategy to handle multifaceted dynamics of publishing world, especially efficient in the case restrictive contexts, which might require evasion ensure trouble-free publication and minimize risk censorship, prohibition, confiscation. This study examines treatment s...

The discipline of nursing continues to evolve in keeping with the dramatic expansion of scientific knowledge, technology, and a concomitant increase in complexity of patient care in all practice settings. Changing patient demographics require complex planning for co-morbidities associated with chronic diseases and life-saving advances that have altered mortality in ways never before imagined. T...

The aim of the present study was to examine to what degree different mechanisms of moral disengagement were related to age, gender, bullying, and defending among school children. Three hundred and seventy-two Swedish children ranging in age from 10 to 14 years completed a questionnaire. Findings revealed that boys expressed significantly higher levels of moral justification, euphemistic labelin...

The article investigates the linguistic and extralinguistic nature of contamination – a word-building pattern that seems to be on the rise in modern English. The relative productivity of contamination is traced down to several factors: first, the speaker’s intention to assert his individuality through punning and word-juggling; second, saving up time and physical and mental effort; third, camou...

The present work (N = 1906 U.S. residents) investigates the extent to which peoples' evaluations of actions can be biased by strategic use euphemistic (agreeable) and dysphemistic (disagreeable) terms. We find that participants' are made more favorable replacing a disagreeable term (e.g., torture) with semantically related agreeable enhanced interrogation) in an act's description. Notably, infl...