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<p>This paper focuses on a linguistic image of mother in German languages. It seeks to grasp it through a typical context of the German word <italic>Mutter</italic> ʻmotherʼ. The research is based on results of distributional and thematic analyses of these words. These analyses are used as a base for reconstructing prototypical characteristics of “mother” and the related concepts used by speakers of German. The paper develops these findings into compiling the most frequent collocations and other (mostly contextual) information gathered by the use of corpus tools. The paper concludes with an outline of unconscious axiological processes used in evaluating the image of mother on the good/bad axis.</p>
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This paper focuses on a linguistic image of mother in German languages. It seeks to grasp it through a typical context of the German word Mutter ʻmotherʼ. The research is based on results of distributional and thematic analyses of these words. These analyses are used as a base for reconstructing prototypical characteristics of “mother” and the related concepts used by speakers of German. The paper develops these findings into compiling the most frequent collocations and other (mostly contextual) information gathered by the use of corpus tools. The paper concludes with an outline of unconscious axiological processes used in evaluating the image of mother on the good/bad axis.

On Conceptual and Axiological Aspects of the Word <italic>Mutter</italic> ʻMotherʼ in Context (Based on Corpus Material)

Department of German Studies, Faculty of Arts

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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On Conceptual and Axiological Aspects of the Word  ʻMotherʼ in Context (Based on Corpus Material)

This paper focuses on a linguistic image of mother in German languages. It seeks to grasp it through a typical context of the German word Mutter ʻmotherʼ. The...

On Conceptual and Axiological Aspects of the Word Mutter ʻMotherʼ in Context (Based on Corpus Material)

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 643 - 655

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0058

Keywords
corpus linguistics, collocation profile, context, linguistic image of a word, axiology

© 2021 Anita Braxatorisová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

On Conceptual and Axiological Aspects of the Word Mutter ʻMotherʼ in Context (Based on Corpus Material)

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 643 - 655

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0058

Keywordscorpus linguistics, collocation profile, context, linguistic image of a word, axiology

© 2021 Anita Braxatorisová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
corpus linguistics, collocation profile, context, linguistic image of a word, axiology