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Researching English VocabularySwearing Presentation
By Ana, Jose, Maria and Stephen
The word we will be presenting is….
Word formation processes
• Inflection• Derivation
• Compounding
Words with similar functions
Etymology
Old English “bicce”
Germanic only in Old Norse “bikkja“
German “betze “and “petze”
French “biche” “bitch,” and “biche”
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The most frequent collocation is “son of a bitch”
The collocation “Stuck up bitch” means, a girl or a women who is generally ugly and thinks she is
better than everyone else.
Analysing Google Ngram Viewer: British English
Analysing Google Ngram Viewer: American English
Comparing English and American use
• The uses were very similar except that ‘bitch’ was used more often in British English to describe abstract items.
• The form ‘biatch’ did not appear in the British English corpus on ngram viewer.
• The use of the word ‘bitch’ has peaked in the last 10 years in both British and American English.
Genres in which “bitch” appears
• Highest frequency in the fictional register• In the magazine and spoken registers there is a higher frequency as well in contrast with the newspaper and
academic registers • Possible explanation in fictional register : informal style• The low frequency in the academic and newspaper registers is because these registers use a more formal style
and their aim is to transmit information or explain something.
Corpus of Historical American English
• The highest frequency appears in the year 2000 • Other higher frequencies appear between the years 1960 and 1970.• Conclusion: the word “bitch” became to be a more used word from
1950 in spite of the slight differences across the 20th century.
References
• The Corpus Of Contemporary American English, http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/• Corpus of Historical American English, http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/• Oxford English Dictionary, http://www.oed.com/• Sketch Engine, http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/
Thank you for watching!