Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parent Termsort descending Description
3111 Actions Bodily Kissing
1389 Actions Physical Kissing
578 Environment Domestic Space Kitchen
4237 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
3573 Themes and Motifs Body Knee
3114 Actions Bodily Kneeling
1395 Themes and Motifs Objects knife
1770 Actions Domestic Knitting
5121 Actions Mental Knowing
4136 Themes and Motifs Community Knowledge
814 Cultural Issues Hunting and Fishing Knowledge
1873 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Koran
4976 Cultural Issues War Korean War
5423 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Kreisler, Fritz
2640 Cultural Issues Race Ku Klux Klan
4965 Cultural Issues History Ku Klux Klan
273 Cultural Issues Slavery Labor
472 Cultural Issues (First level term) Labor
2267 Cultural Issues Gender Labor
4707 Cultural Issues Economy Labor trouble
5454 Cultural Issues Economy Labor unions
2859 Cultural Issues Clothes Lace
1347 Themes and Motifs Determinism Lack of choice
4375 Actions Communication Lack of communication

To be used generally for any instance in which information is suppressed or not passed between individuals. This can apply to individuals sharing the same space or to communication across longer distances. JC
2307 Aesthetics Typography/Orthography Lack of Punctuation
4642 Themes and Motifs Money Lacking
3971 Themes and Motifs Objects Ladder
2935 Environment Domestic Space Ladies parlor
3622 Cultural Issues Gender Lady
4833 Cultural Issues Gender Lady's accoutrements
1075 Environment Time of Year Laid-by season
5458 Cultural Issues Economy Laissez-faire capitalism
3233 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lamar
3506 Themes and Motifs Objects Lamp or lantern
3337 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lancelot
242 Cultural Issues (First level term) Land-Use
817 Relationships Hierarchical Landlord-tenant
973 Relationships Commercial Landlord-tenant
1813 Environment Natural Landmark

This term can be used for natural phenomena used as a landmark. (Added for the Gum Tree -- capitalized in the text -- used in "Lion" and related texts like "The Bear.")
2551 Aesthetics Description Landscape
3440 Actions Work Landscaping
1410 Environment Place Lane
1100 Aesthetics (First level term) Language
2652 Cultural Issues Violence Language

To be used in the event that words, spoken or written, are imagined as violent. JC
3957 Cultural Issues Ethnicity Language barrier
5455 Actions Communication Language barriers
4582 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Lao Tse (Laozi)
2967 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Latin pastoral poetry
3168 Aesthetics Language Latin phrase
2708 Actions Bodily Laughing
1432 Actions Emotional Laughing
4483 Themes and Motifs Recurring Tropes Laughter as sign of madness
5271 Aesthetics Allusion, Literary Launcelot
4616 Environment Public Lavatory
4653 Environment Place Lavatory
546 Cultural Issues Race Law
437 Cultural Issues (First level term) Law
986 Actions Work Law enforcement
518 Cultural Issues Education Law school
1132 Cultural Issues Law Law school
2681 Themes and Motifs Objects Lawnmower
3899 Environment Place Lawns
2767 Cultural Issues Alcohol Laws

This keyword covers any laws and regulations regarding the production, sale, or consumption of alcohol. This covers "Blue Laws", bootlegging, and other legal frameworks. The reason for putting this under Alcohol and not crime was that this is not to highlight any specific law or that someone has even committed a crime, but rather the legal structure affirms or contradicts cultural norms around alcohol. JB
4543 Cultural Issues Law Lawsuit
744 Relationships Institutional Lawyer-client
1134 Actions Work Lawyering

Performing any sort of work as an attorney at law. JW
4551 Cultural Issues Law Lawyers
4753 Cultural Issues Religion Lay preacher
2683 Themes and Motifs Character Laziness
822 Relationships Hierarchical Leader
976 Actions Interaction, Social Leadership
3846 Environment Natural Leaf / leaves
5395 Cultural Issues History League of Nations
2814 Environment Domestic Space Lean-to
3517 Actions Mental Learning
2155 Cultural Issues Sexuality Learning about

This admittedly clumsy term is for when a narrative deals with a character being told or otherwise learning about sexual matters. (The specific impetus for its creation is in "Miss Zilphia Gant" when her mother starts strip searching her at age 13 and begins telling her "what her father had done and what she had done.") JBP
2206 Themes and Motifs Psychological Learning disability
2656 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving
2094 Themes and Motifs Arrivals/Departures Leaving home
4052 Actions Work Leaving work
4158 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Leda and the Swan
4115 Cultural Issues Economy Ledger
1731 Themes and Motifs Texts Ledger
2661 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical Lee, Robert Edward
5659 Aesthetics Allusion, Historical LeFlore, Greenwood
4933 Themes and Motifs Death Left for dead
3361 Cultural Issues Food Leftovers
2202 Cultural Issues Slavery Legacy after emancipation

Refers to when a text alludes to the legacy of slavery years (or decades) after the end of slavery. It was created to tag the references to "sold my Benjamin" in "Go Down, Moses" - a story whose very title alludes to slavery. JBP
1086 Actions (First level term) Legal
5547 Cultural Issues Law Legal advice
1249 Cultural Issues Law Legal authority
5297 Aesthetics Language Legal definitions
1232 Cultural Issues Law Legal document
4049 Cultural Issues Law Legal fine
1011 Cultural Issues Law Legal issue
5298 Cultural Issues Law Legal ownership
648 Actions Moral Legal surrender
3347 Aesthetics Allusion, Mythical Legends in American history
3021 Cultural Issues Government Legislative action
3992 Themes and Motifs Body Legs

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