1. How is humiliation communicated in your community: by spoken\/written\/sign language\/gestures?<\/p>\n
2. In what social contexts does\/did the humiliation take place? Home\/work\/school\/public places (church, stadiums, political meetings, shopping malls, parades, etc)<\/p>\n
3. Who is\/are\/was\/were the humiliator(s) and the humiliated? Do\/Did they know each other\/ one another or not? What social relation is there\/was there between\/among them?<\/p>\n
4. Is\/Was there any local documentation on the History of Humiliation or on the relation of local History and Humiliation? Where? Who by? Available in print? Online?<\/p>\n
5. Is\/Was the humiliating event private or publicly shared (via TV, the Internet, radio, printed media (newspaper, magazine, electronic materials)?<\/p>\n
6. Is\/Was the communicative style used in humiliating too formal (or deliberately archaic to as to overwhelm and oppress the reader\/listener\/viewer), formal, informal, too informal (near-vulgar)?<\/p>\n
7. Is\/Are the social effect(s) of the humiliation made explicit by the humiliated person(s)\/group(s)? How? Where? (through letters to local newspapers, through legal action, for instance)<\/p>\n
8. Is\/Was the humiliating act a borrowing or an adaptation of a custom from another culture? If so, specify.<\/p>\n
9. Does\/Did the humiliator reconsider\/reframe\/reword the humiliating message, after communicating it and apologize or tone it down? How? Is\/Was reconciliation sought after?<\/p>\n
10. How do\/did persons near-by react to the humiliation being inflicted on a person? Were voices of solidarity heard? How?<\/p>\n
11. How does the local\/national media deal with communicative humiliation? By bringing it to public attention in editorials, essays, news items? Do journalists denounce such communicative abuses? How? Are social variables taken into account?<\/p>\n
12. Does the local school system offer Communicative Humiliation Conscientization Practices in their curricula? If so, how are such social-sensitization efforts related to enhancing citizens\u2019 right to developing a positive Social Identity.<\/p>\n
13. Does the local \/national literature (both fiction and non-fiction) contribute to ever mention forms of communicative humiliation and call attention to their harmful societal uses? Where? How? In what text genres?<\/p>\n
14. Are social\/sociolinguistic alternatives to communicative humiliation being investigated in local national research centers, programs, etc? Where? How? (Through interdisciplinary websites, for example, www.humiliationstudies.org)?<\/p>\n
15. Do reference works (different dictionaries, from general to specific works, such as biographical dictionaries) exemplify humiliation as a predominantly\/largely\/frequent communicative process? Where? How? For example, are verbs representing humiliating acts exemplified through realistic, current example sentences? Do verbs like debase, demean, deride, detract, disparage receive socio-linguistic attention, as regards their humiliation – generating meaning?<\/p>\n
16. Does the local culture explicitly name the perpetrator(s) of humiliation acts as \u201chumiliator(s)\u201d or is such identification left invisible?<\/p>\n
17. Does the local\/national literature contribute to typologies of communicative humiliation and other related concepts such as communicative oppression, intimidation?<\/p>\n
18. Does the local culture share with other cultures examples of presumably universal Phraseology of Humiliation. For example, can persons in your culture be heard saying something like this: \u201cI\u2019ve been never been so humiliated in my life?\u201d Is there any psychological, cross-cultural research available on that seemingly shared communicative manifestation of humiliation? Where? How?<\/p>\n
19. How does the Humiliation Word-Family in the language(s) of the local culture(s) correlate with intentions and effects of social acts?<\/p>\n
20. How does the sociolinguistic act of humiliation relate to the psychological process of depriving someone\/a group a community of its esteem, self-worth and humanity?<\/p>\n
21. What Social Alternatives can be imagined\/created for communicatively humiliating acts, thus contributing to a Culture of Dignity, Justice, Peace, and Egalitarian Democracy?<\/p>\n
22. Do you feel at home where you live\/are living now?<\/p>\n
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Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author,<\/em> among others, of the book<\/em> Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai\u2019i). Downloadable at www.nonkilling.org<\/a>. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. How is humiliation communicated in your community: by spoken\/written\/sign language\/gestures?
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