Essays about: "COHA"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word COHA.

1. 1. Male-biased language: a diachronic corpus study of neutralization strategy in gender-based linguistic reforms

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Evelina Eriksson; [2023]
   Keywords : Corpus linguistics; generic pronouns; neutralization; linguistic reforms; epicene; gender-neutral language;

   Abstract : This paper focuses on the use of English epicene pronouns in discourse which most individuals are exposed to on an everyday basis. Gender-based linguistic reforms have been implemented since the beginning of the 1970s, to achieve a more non-sexist language. READ MORE

3. 2. Making the Old New Again : A Corpus Analysis of Semantic Change in Contemporary American English Slang

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Matthew Gallaher; [2023]
   Keywords : semantics; semantic change; corpus studies; corpus linguistics; slang; collocates; context analysis;

   Abstract : This study used a combination of historical and contemporary corpora to investigate semantic change within the contemporary American English slang words swag, flex, and swole. This study involved two parts. READ MORE

4. 3. The Power of Words : How the use of words reflects societal opinion

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : David Brodin; [2023]
   Keywords : Gay; Queer; Corpus Linguistics;

   Abstract : This essay examines the ways that the underlying meaning of the keywords queer and gay had changed between, and during, the periods of 1989-1991, 1999-2001 and 2009-2011 within the medium of written American English as collected by the Corpus of Historical American English across multiple written genres. The examination of the two chosen keywords was conducted by sorting the list-results of respective COHA queries into each period, and then conducted by a systematic sorting of the query results into one out of four categories depending on how the keywords were primed, framed and used. READ MORE

5. 4. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
   Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

   Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. READ MORE

6. 5. Cactuses or Cacti? : A corpus-based study on the use of Latin nominal inflection in American English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Hanna Bengtsson; [2021]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : As a result of language contact and influence, the English language contains a significant amount of lexical items borrowed from other languages. Whilst the borrowing of inflectional morphology is not very common, English does use several Latin plurals in their original form. READ MORE