Open AccessSpol and Rod from a Diachronic and Synchronic Perspective
Author(s) -
Ana Mihaljević,
Milica Mihaljević
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
collegium antropologicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1848-9486
pISSN - 0350-6134
DOI - 10.5671/ca.45.4.6
Subject(s) - croatian , linguistics , terminology , perspective (graphical) , relation (database) , noun , proper noun , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , database
The paper presents the diachronic and synchronic analysis of the use of Croatian words spol and rod and their Croatian Church Slavonic (polь, spolь, and rodь) and English (sex and gender) equivalents. The starting points for diachronic analysis are dictionaries and dictionary data, while the synchronic analysis is additionally based on the corpora and the Internet. The paper focuses on dictionary definitions of nouns rod and spol, adjectives rodni and spolni, the relation of Croatian terms rod and spol with English terms gender and sex, the terminology of sex/gender (non)discrimination, and ways of speaking about persons of non-binary gender.