Essays about: "Vanja Elizabeth Liv Vinter"

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  1. 1. You Call me a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing : A Study into the Current Use and Semantic Properties of the Noun Bitch

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Vanja Elizabeth Liv Vinter; [2017]
    Keywords : lexical semantics; semantic prosody; semantic change; corpus linguistics; reappropriation;

    Abstract : This paper analyses and discusses the present-day use of the noun bitch, as the term in contemporary usage seems to have started to deviate from the lexical definition. Traditionally considered an insult when applied to a woman, bitch has recently started being used as a self-imposed label rather than an applied one. READ MORE