Non-usual feminitives in media discourse: An active process
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Language and Literature
Year: 2023

The active process of non-usual feminitives’ creation and its distribution in modern media discourse is studied. The object of the study is feminitive neologisms with the suffix -к- (авторка ‘female author’, блогерка ‘female blogger’, редакторка ‘female editor’, режиссерка ‘female director’, etc.) in media discourse. The material of the study is a self-assembled corpus of non-usual feminitives in the media. The corpus, compiled using the keyword search technique and marked manually, contains 699