THE REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CONCEPTS «MAN» AND «WOMAN» IN MODERN AMERICAN ENGLISH
Abstract
This article presents some results of a corpus-based study to identify and classify some social dimensions of the concepts ‘MAN’ and ‘WOMAN’ represented by collocations of the lexemes ‘man’ and ‘woman’ with attributive adjectives in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The findings are based on the frequency of occurrence and the ‘nominative density’ of the conceptual features, as well as the Mutual Information Score indicative of a‘semantic bonding’ between the collocates. The semantic analysis of the adjectives helps to identify ‘cultural and national connotations’ of the conceptual features they represent.
About the Author
O. Yu. Shishigina
Kemerovo State University
Russian Federation
Oksana Y. Shishigina – Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor at the Department of English philology № 1
Russian Federation
Oksana Y. Shishigina – Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor at the Department of English philology № 1
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Shishigina O.Yu. THE REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CONCEPTS «MAN» AND «WOMAN» IN MODERN AMERICAN ENGLISH. SibScript. 2013;(2-2):199-204. (In Russ.)
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