A corpus-based lexical study of contemporary feminist short-story writers : with special reference to Alice Munro a research in linguistics

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This research is a corpus-based study of the lexical features in the short stories of the contemporary female Canadian feminist writer Alice Munro.

The aim of the study is to specify recurrent themes related to the deteriorated conditions of women throughout the twentieth century through her lexical choices.

The lexical analysis isanalyzedin terms of collocations, concordances, and lexical sets that are frequently used to convey such themes.

In addition, the denotations and connotations of the most and the least frequent lexical items with various lexical features are analyzed.

Throughout the analysis, special attention is devoted to how these lexical choices help portraying the feminine identity adopted by Alice Munro and prevailing in most of her writings.

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