THE REPRESENTATION OF MENS AND WOMENS APPEARANCE BY ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES IN MODERN ENGLISH
This article presents some results of a corpus-based study to identify how mens and womens physical appearance is represented by collocations of the lexemes man and woman with attributive adjectives in modern American English. The findings are based on the frequency of occurrence and the nominative density of the features of the concepts man and woman in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The semantic analysis of the adjectives helps to identify cultural and national connotations of the conceptual features they represent.