THE REPRESENTATION OF MENS AND WOMENS APPEARANCE BY ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES IN MODERN ENGLISH
Abstract
This article presents some results of a corpus-based study to identify how mens and womens physical appearance
is represented by collocations of the lexemes man and woman with attributive adjectives in modern American
English. The findings are based on the frequency of occurrence and the nominative density of the features of the
concepts man and woman in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The semantic analysis of the adjectives
helps to identify cultural and national connotations of the conceptual features they represent.
is represented by collocations of the lexemes man and woman with attributive adjectives in modern American
English. The findings are based on the frequency of occurrence and the nominative density of the features of the
concepts man and woman in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The semantic analysis of the adjectives
helps to identify cultural and national connotations of the conceptual features they represent.
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Review
For citations:
Shishigina O.Yu. THE REPRESENTATION OF MENS AND WOMENS APPEARANCE BY ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES IN MODERN ENGLISH. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2012;(4-4):224-228. (In Russ.)
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