Open AccessОсобенности семантики гендерных фразеологизмов (на материале вос- точно- и западнославянских языков)
Author(s) -
Kateřina Kedron
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
studia rossica posnaniensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-703X
pISSN - 0081-6884
DOI - 10.14746/strp.2017.42.15
Subject(s) - connotation , referent , linguistics , phrase , meaning (existential) , semantics (computer science) , component (thermodynamics) , function (biology) , semantic change , psychology , computer science , philosophy , physics , evolutionary biology , biology , psychotherapist , thermodynamics , programming language
This study is an attempt to show how the “gender” semantics of fixed expressions form and what the function of the gender component is in this process. An analysis of the language material shows that there are several cases of modification of “gender” semantics of idiomatic phrases: changes in the phrase’s connotation (there are distinctions between utterances with the same structure in one language or between similar cases in different languages); the change of the referent from male to female (or vice versa) or to the common human meaning etc. It is also shown that the role of the gender component is intrinsic to semantic processes.