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Linguistic Means of English Language at the Coverage of the Domestic Violence Problem

Table 3: The classifications of words from the texts of different genres.

Classification of texts Related words and collocations
Historical publications To criminalize (domestic violence), fight (domestic violence), eradicate, end, reduce (domestic violence), improved, predict, awareness, prevention, Ordinary, simply (domestic violence), to dramatize (domestic violence), «honor» killings, female-perpetrated (domestic violence), suffer, severely (battered woman), injurious (violence), abuse, assault, victimized (through intimate partner violence), maltreatment, (sexual abuse) scandal.
Sociological/mass media publications Prevent, end, assisting, criminalize, escape, fight, combat, reduce, confront (domestic violence), help (victims), support, hotline, criticize.Misdemeanor, male, female, female-on-male, male-on-female (domestic violence), sanctioned (domestic violence), mock (domestic violence against men), fatal, deserve (violence), cut-and-dry (domestic violence), instigate, jeopardize, horrendous, little domestic violence, condone, church-sponsored, provoke, decriminalize.
Political publications Prevent, stop, centralize, escape, felony, eliminate, curb, deter, aware, battle, avoid, establish (domestic violence court), constitute, statistics, severe, fatal, endure, assault, dangers, condemn.
Law publications Protest, prioritize, prevent, mental health (of victim), adjudicate, battle (against violence), criminal, misdemeanor, offseason (domestic violence charge), felony, investigate, jeopardize, witnessing.
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