Emancypacja, feminizm and sufrażyzm in dictionaries of the Polish language Cover Image

Emancypacja, feminizm, sufrażyzm w słownikach języka polskiego
Emancypacja, feminizm and sufrażyzm in dictionaries of the Polish language

Author(s): Kornelia Jankowska
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Civil Society, Lexis, Semantics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: women’s social movements; emancipation; feminism; suffragism; dictionaries of Polish language;

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to names of social movements led by women, such as emancypacja, feminizm and sufrażyzm. It presents history of these words and their derivates in polish language, based on informations obtained from dictionaries – old and new. Author looked into definitions, qualifiers and examples of usage. It helped with establishing chronology and semantic changes of subjected words. Then author evaluated usefulness of dictionaries in this kind of research. It turned out that they can be helpful but don’t give all needed informations.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 207-219
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish