CME Journal of Clinical Case Reports

On the Ideology Beyond the Hapax Legomenon "Very Good" As Coined in The Christian Myth of Creation

Abstract

Pascal Bakari Bin Simba and Alain Ngoy Ndombe

The very goal of this study has been to highlight the use of the expression ‘very good’ in an excerpt of the biblical myth of creation as some ideological content was felt therein. So, an automated Lexicometric analysis with Lexico3 software has been executed. This analysis has primarily confirmed the main text theme or topic. Secondly, it has revealed that the superlative form of the adjective ‘good’ has been used only once on an account of seven occurrences of the same lexeme. Thus, the Lexico3 option that displays collocation has been definitely resorted to in order to understand further the linguistic context of occurrence of this target expression and the reason why it has been used as a hapax.

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