Ordet kvinna:s semantik
This paper tests the hypothesis, that the Swedish word kvinna ’women’ isn’t used as much in colloquial language as the corresponding word man ’man’. Language users, the hypothesis says, prefer alternative words, such as tjej ’girl’, dam ’lady’, or tant ’aunt’, when they talk about adult persons of female sex which is not the case when they talk about adult persons of male sex. The alternatives to