Gender perspective in linquistics

Abstract

The article deals with the linguo-filosophical category "Gender", which is interpreted and as a social gender, and as a verbalized phenomenon of culture, and as a set of not natural, namely social representations.  It is noted that the urgency of the study is due to the general direction of modern linguistic studies for the identification and analysis of linguistic phenomena, according to the representation of gender culture, with the detection of gender stratification tools at all language levels.  It has been found that gender issues are conducted in certain directions of linguistic research: sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, cross-cultural and linguistic cultural.  Modern science recognizes that gender hierarchy and gender-based behavior patterns are formed under the influence of institutions of cultural traditions and social control.

Language markers of explication of male and female cultural concepts in paremias and phrases are revealed, since they are a vivid source of knowledge about the peculiarities of gender conceptualization in the minds of carriers, it is most fully represented by the cultural peculiarity of the people.  The verbal means of creating gender are diverse.  It is proved that for the expression of gender opposition, a person in the language are used as grammatical means and lexical.  Among the means of grammatical marking, the meaning of «Male» and «Women» central place belongs to the grammatical category of genus and anthropymous names.  At the lexical level, the markers of social opposition articles are anthropometric lexes, lexemes-agents, lexemic symbols (bio – and zoomorphous), etc.

It has been recorded that the bulk of paremia correlates with men's gender, indicating androcentric view. It is summarized that gender is a model of social relations between a man and a woman, reflects in the language levels of the peculiarities of their correlation and is used to describe the social, cultural, psychological aspects of masculine in comparison with «femininal».  The study of markers of gender opposition at certain speech levels is promising for further research on genderology.