MORPHOLEXICAL PROPERTIES OF ENGLISH AND SLOVENIAN MASCULINE/FEMININE NOUNS FOR PROFESSIONS
Keywords:
associative meaning, collocators, corpus frequency, feminatives, masculinatives, word-formation, semantic preference
Abstract
The article presents an analysis of masculine and feminine nouns denoting professions in English and Slovenian. The researched expressions are first discussed from the point of view of word-formation (derivation and compounding), then corpora are employed to examine the frequency of the forms in both languages. The corpus data are complemented with an analysis of collocators with the purpose of identifying the semantic preferences and associative meanings of gender-marked expressions for professions. The results reveal that some feminine nouns for professions are stylistically unmarked (especially in Slovenian), whereas others co- occur (in English and Slovenian) with words that reflect the societal attitudes to gender roles, appearance and character.
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Stubbs, Michael. (2001). Words and Phrases. Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Šorli, Mojca. (2013). Corpus-based lexicographical descriptions with a special focus on pragmatics: the case of the Slovene lexical database. In ELOPE: English language overseas perspectives and enquiries No 10/2. 45-65. https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.10.2.45-65.
Šorli, Mojca. (2012). Semantična prozodija v teoriji in praksi – korpusni pristop k proučevanju pragmatičnega pomena: primer slovenščine in angleščine [Semantic prosody in theory and practice – a corpus approach to the study of pragmatic meaning: Slovene and English]. In Dvojezična korpusna leksikografija: slovenščina v kontrastu: novi izzivi, novi obeti [Bilingual corpus lexicography: Contrasting Slovenian: New challenges, new outlook]. Mojca Šorli (ed.). Ljubljana: Trojina, zavod za uporabno slovenistiko. 90-116.
Štumberger, Saška. (2015). Veränderungen in der gesellschaftlichen Stellung von Frauen in Slowenien seit 1991: Personenbezeichnungen im Wörterbuch Slovar novejšega besedja slovenskega jezika (2012). In New Approaches to Gender and Queer Research in Slavonic Studies. Dennis Scheller-Boltz, ed. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz. 101-109.
Toporišič, Jože. (2000). Slovenska slovnica [Slovenian grammar]. Maribor: Obzorja.
Uhlik, Mladen. (2019). Izražanje spolske korelacije pri položajnih poimenovanjih v ruščini in slovenščini [Expressing gender correlation in positional denominations in Russian and Slovenian]. In Slavistična revija [Slavistic revue] 67/2. (In press).
Vidovič-Muha, Ada. (2018). Slovensko skladenjsko besedotvorje [Slovenian syntactic word formation]. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta.
Published
2019-10-10
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Ilc, G., & Stopar, A. (2019). MORPHOLEXICAL PROPERTIES OF ENGLISH AND SLOVENIAN MASCULINE/FEMININE NOUNS FOR PROFESSIONS. Philological Studies, 17(1), 305-330. Retrieved from http://194.149.137.236/index.php/philologicalstudies/article/view/232
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