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In Search of Cultural and Personal Experience behind woman in James Joyce’s Dubliners
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In the article, we exemplify an individualized approach to lexical semantics, where an individual’s use of words is given priority over abstracted and all-embracing dictionary-like definitions. Thus, as identified in Dubliners, the senses of woman are presented as reflections of Joyce’s conceptualizations derived from his own life experience, both personal and cultural. These conceptualizatons may resemble some of the dictionary models/definitions of woman of the relevant (Victorian) period, but, on the whole, they are highly individualized and contextspecific. In our analysis, Joyce’s woman shows in Dubliners six main broad senses, all of which share the element ‘a female person of a status lower than that of a male person.’
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/arte.2016.1.157
Date of publication: 2016-05-09 12:15:33
Date of submission: 2015-08-04 14:03:27
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