Essays about: "Lavinia Ferm"

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  1. 1. Meaning and usage variation of feminine and womanly in American literary history. A corpus based case study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Lavinia Ferm; [2011]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The original aim for this case study was to look at how two synonymous lexemes, feminine and womanly, have varied in meaning over time in both British and American literature and also, to see if there was a difference in the usage of the lexemes depending on whether the author was male or female. As can be read in Lyons (1995: 60), lexemes like feminine and womanly would be called near-synonyms in linguistic semantics, which means that they are very similar but not entirely identical in meaning. READ MORE