The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Online ISSN: 2301-2218
European Publisher
Linguistic Means of English Language at the Coverage of the Domestic Violence Problem
Table 1: The positive/negative classification of words related to domestic violence
| Positive contextual words | Negative contextual words |
| against (domestic violence), national (center for victims), (domestic violence) awareness (month), (domestic violence) shelters, (domestic violence) survivors, hotline (for domestic violence victims), coalition (against domestic violence), (domestic violence) restraining, (domestic violence) prevention, laws (on domestic violence), (Prosecution) unit, protective (services). | against (women), (domestic) abuse, (sexual) assault, (marital) rape, (domestic violence) charge, misdemeanor (domestic violence), crime (of domestic violence), harassment, substance (abuse), perpetrators (of domestic violence), (domestic violence) offenders, (domestic violence) killings, felony (of domestic violence), poverty, battery (domestic violence), alcoholism, stalking (is a domestic violence behaviour). |