Collocations of “woman” and “mujer” in the UN Parallel Corpus
Gender equality, as a fundamental human right, is far from being achieved.
Women are still the vulnerable sex, and pandemics and geopolitical and financial crises
only make matters worse. The global predicament of violence, poverty and stereotyping
that women endure can be seen in language through a qualitative study of the appearance,
variation and frequency of the collocations of “woman” in the United Nations parallel
corpus. What is perhaps unexpected is the role of translation as a perpetuator or
exacerbator of women’s subordinate position, even to the extent of making violence
against women invisible or unimportant.
Article outline
- 1.The global predicament of women
- 2.Methodology
- 2.1The lemma
- 2.2The corpus
- 2.3The corpus manager
- 2.4The database
- 2.5Classification of the collocations
- 3.Analysis
- 3.1Women and family
- 3.2Women and poverty
- 3.3Women and violence
- 4.Translation
- 4.1Translation of expressions in the domain of violence against women
- 5.Conclusions
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References
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