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 4: The frequency of related words and collocations using during the «waves» of the feminist movement
| Related words | The average frequency of using in the first «wave» of feminism (the end of the XIX-the middle of the XX) | The average frequency of using in the second «wave» of feminism (1960-1990) | The average frequency of using in the third «wave» of feminism (1990-2008) | The average frequency of using in the forth «wave» of feminism (2008-nowadays) |
| Domestic violence | 3 | 28 | 573 | 1092 |
| Domestic abuse | 0 | 2 | 77 | 123 |
| Marital rape | 0 | 5 | 12 | 13 |
| License to rape | 0 | 0,3 | 0,3 | 7 |
| Battered woman | 0 | 4 | 139 | 12 |
| Family violence | 0 | 11 | 58 | 46 |
| Harassment | 8 | 194 | 1596 | 1788 |
| Gaslighting | 0 | 0,8 | 1 | 17 |