Karin Milles
List of John Benjamins publications in which Karin Milles is involved.
Articles
2022 Feminism and language Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 145–170 | Chapter
2011 Snippa – a new word for girls’ genitals in Swedish: Gender-neutral or patriarchal? Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures, Majstorović, Danijela and Inger Lassen (eds.), pp. 69–80 | Article
In standard Swedish there has been no neutral, colloquial word for the female
genitalia. This problem attracted considerable attention in the 1990s.
Different words were proposed, with the word snippa soon emerging as the most popular alternative. The word now seems to be one of the most common… read more