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• Title:
  Words For Women's Boots in Present-Day Polish: A Quantitative and Contrastive Onomasiological Study
• Creator:
  Wilson, Andrew
• Contributor:
  Lancaster University
• Description:
  Footwear terminology demonstrates interesting cross-linguistic differences and is, consequently, also a problematic area for non-native speakers. In order to arrive at a more accurate picture of a subset of footwear terminology in present-day Polish, 82 native speakers were asked to name a range of six contemporary women's boot styles. No style showed a complete agreement in the preferred head noun, although a clear trend was evident for each one, with kozaki being the most commonly used overall. The possibly uniquely Polish use of a military metaphor for tall riding-style boots (oficerki) and the special subcultural case of Dr. Martens-style boots are discussed in particular. The choice of modifiers within noun phrases for boots is also examined. Some contrastive data are presented from speakers of Greek and Russian.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This content is open access.
• Date:
  2015.06.12;
  2007.12.18
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;5
• Subject:
  Polish;
  onomasiology;
  terminology;
  footwear;
  boots;
  dictionaries;
  learner language;
  elicitation experiments;
  subcultures
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9550 ;
  2083-4616;
  10.2478/v10015-007-0011-5
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  other