On przynosi pieniądze, a ona buja dziecko, czyli jak role mężczyzny i kobiety w rodzinie postrzega Nowy słownik poprawnej polszczyzny PWN
He earns money and she rocks a baby, i.e. the role of a man and a woman in a family according to Nowy słownik poprawnej Polszczyzny PWN

Summary/Abstract: In dictionaries people rarely search for ideological or world-views essence. The research on sex stereotypes in Nowy słownik poprawnej polszczyzny PWN shows that examples of word usage can be a very rich source material to this kind of analysis. In the article I tried to prove that stereotypic perception of a man and a woman and their roles in a family is still deeply ingrained in people’s thinking – even now when it is signifi cantly different from reality. Examples from the dictionary show that a woman’s domain is her private sphere and a man’s a public one. It is simplifi ed and somewhat misrepresented view of the world. Admittedly, one cannot expect from dictionaries to fi ght with stereotypes because that is not their role, but it is good to be aware of such a problem and try to minimalize it. I have reached for content and discourse analysis i.e. for methods from linguistics and social studies. They enable to study short, separate utterances as a uniform narration and show that there emerges a coherent, surprising linguistic portait of differencies between women and men. Trans. A. Gierba

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